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NEW YORK. 



THE coast was discovered by Giovanni de Verrazano, a Florentine navigator, 
who anchored his vessel in April, 1524, near the point of land now called 
Sandy Hook, and afterwards entered the bay and river. French adven- 
turers, Ranlin Seculart and Jean Alphonse, about the year 1545 visited the same 
waters, and probably built works on Castleton Island below Albany, and it is 
claimed that a trace of the ruins may be seen. 

The English title was partly based on the discovery of the North American 
coast by John Cabot, June 24, 1497, recorded on maps by his son, Sebastian. 
The " Half Moon," a Dutch vessel, commanded by Hendrick Hudson, an English- 
man in the service of the Dutch East India Company, seeking a western passage 
to China, anchored September 3, 1609, in the lower bay, and eight days later 
"went into the river," now the Hudson. On September 19, the " Half Moon" 
anchored at the point where Albany now stands. Dutch merchants commis- 
sioned a ship in the summer of 1610, for trade to New Netherland, and in 1612 
other vessels were sent for the same object. 

A few huts were built on the southern point of Manhattan Island, and were 
the beginning of New Amsterdam. Even earlier, Hendrick Christiaensen had 
erected a strong house on the west bank of the Hudson, just below Albany, and 
called it Fort Nassau, but it was abandoned in 1617. 

In 1621, the Dutch West India Company succeeded the earlier traders. The 
first colony came to New Netherland under the auspices of this company in 
1623. Eight men were left on Manhattan Island, and others settled on the west 
shore of Long Island. Other vessels followed, and in 1625 the population had 
increased to two hundred. 

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The next year the government of the settlement was made more important, 
with Peter Minuit as director-general, assisted by a committee of five. He 
purchased of the Indians, Manhattan Island, for small wares and goods valued at 
twenty-four dollars. In 1628, the village was named Fort Amsterdam, and a fort 
was erected of the same name near the Bowling Green in 1635, and was standing 
up to 1791. 

In 1633, Director-General Wouter Van Twiller arrived in Manhattan, bring- 
ing with him a company of soldiers, the first to arrive in the province The 
earliest defences were at Pearl Street, " the Road to the Ferry," and consisted of a 
blockhouse and a two-gun battery. The Slip Battery of ten guns was near 
Coenties Slip. The Stadt Huys Battery of five guns; the Whitehall Battery of 
fifteen guns. The Stadt Huys (City Hall) stood on the site of No. 73 Pearl 
Street. 

Bowling Green was the first parade ground, village green, and used for all 
outdoor public occasions. Here, in 1658, was the first marketplace. 

In 1631, the ship " New Netherland," of eight hundred tons, mounting ten 
guns, was built in the Manhattan shipyard. 

Pearl Street, the oldest in the city, was built in 1633, and Bridge Street was 
soon laid out. 

In 1653, the West India Company incorporated New Amsterdam as a city, 
then having one thousand inhabitants and one hundred and twenty houses. 

In 1655, negroes were purchased from the slave ships, and resold to Virginia 
planters. 

The first Custom House stood at the corner of State and Whitehall streets, 
during the administration of Peter Stuyvesant. 

In 1664, Colonel Nicols, the personal representative of the Duke of York, 
arrived in the bay with an English fleet, and forced the Dutch to surrender 
Manhattan Island. He set up a government, and summoned two delegates from 
each town to consider a code, — "the Duke's Laws," — which was accepted, as 
the colony were powerless to do otherwise. The Dutch reconquered the 
island in 1673, but the conquest was not known to the States-General when 
the Treaty of Westminster was signed, providing for the restoration by England 
and Holland of all lands captured during the war. On October 15, 1674, orders 
reached Colve, the director-general, to give up New Netherland. The transfer 
of the province from the Dutch took place November 9, 1674. Major Edmund 
Andros, the new governor of the territories of the Duke of York in America, 
took possession. 

In 1683, Thomas Dongan was governor, afterwards Earl of Limerick. 
Benjamin Fletcher was governor from 1692 to 1698, and was succeeded by the 
Earl of Bellomont. 

In 1692, the first post office was established. 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. V 

In 1693, the first printing press used. 

In 1709, slave market at foot of Wall Street. 

From 1710 to 1719, Robert Hunter was governor. 

1732, first stage from New York to Boston. 

In 1741, "Negro Plot." A large number of negroes and a Catholic priest 
were unjustly executed by the deluded populace. 

From 1743 to 1753, Admiral George Clinton was governor. 

In 1752, the Royal Exchange was opened on Broad street. 

In 1751, trustees were appointed by the Assembly to take charge of funds 
raised for a college. 

In 1752, Trinity Church offered to give land for the college. 

In 1754, King's College received its charter, and the building was erected, 
1756-60, on college land, between Barclay, Church, and Murray streets, and 
College Place. 

The " Sons of Liberty " opposed the Stamp Act in 1765, and burned the 
effigy of the English governor on Bowling Green. 

The statue of George III, which stood on the Bowling Green up to the 
time of the commencement of the revolutionary acts, was pulled down by the 
patriots and destroyed. 

The Chamber of Commerce was incorporated in 1770. 

In 1774, the ship " Nancy" was not allowed to land her cargo of tea. 

At the evacuation of Boston by the British army, Washington marched his 
forces to New York, and on July 19, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was 
read to the troops. 

In August, a large fleet of vessels arrived in the bay with an army of thirty- 
one thousand men, under Howe, Clinton, Cornwallis, and Hessian officers. The 
British army was landed, and defeated Putnam's army at Brooklyn. At Harlem 
Heights the Americans defeated the British in several encounters, and finally 
retired into Westchester. At this time a fire broke out in the city, which 
destroyed four hundred and ninety-three houses. 

/ In November, General Howe's army stormed the works of Fort Washington, 
taking prisoners the garrison. From this time the British held possession of 
the city until the end of the war. 

On November 25, 1783, the rear guard of the British army left the battery, 
and the American army under Washington, with Clinton and other general 
officers, marched into the city. At Fraunce's Tavern, corner of Broad and Pearl 
streets, Washington bade farewell to his officers. 

City Hall Park was, in the early days of New York, much larger than at 
present, and extended beyond Duane Street, and in 1785 the "Bridewell," 
"Almshouse," the "New Jail," and the "Gallows " stood near Chambers 
Street. The jail is now the Hall of Records, near the bridge, but all the other 



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buildings are gone. The present City Hall was built on the park in 1803- 
1812. 

In 1786, the first city directory had eight hundred and forty-six names. 

The first American Congress under the Constitution met in 1789 in the old 
City Hall, corner of Wall and Broad streets. On April 30, 1789, Livingston, 
chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to 
Washington, first President of the United States. 

On July 11, 1804, occurred the fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton, the 
distinguished soldier of the Revolution and the first Secretary of the Treasury, 
and Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States. Burr mortally wounded 
Hamilton, and he died the next day. 

In the War of 1812, the city and forts in the harbor were held by a garrison 
of twenty-three thousand men, and a large number of privateers were sent out. 

The " Clermont," the first steamer, was built in 1807, by Robert Fulton, 
inventor, and made atrip from New York to Albany. 

The first steamer, the " Phoenix," for ocean service, was built by Col. John 
Stevens of Hoboken in 1807, and made the passage from New York to 
Philadelphia. 

The " Savannah," a steamer built in New York, was the first steam vessel 
to cross the Atlantic. 

In 1824, General Lafayette welcomed. 

October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal was completed. 

The Croton Aqueduct was begun in 1835, and water was introduced into the 
city in 1842 ; the works completed in 1845. The watershed of lakes and 
reservoirs is about thirty-five miles from the city. 

In December, 1835, the lower part of the city was burned, seven hundred 
buildings and twenty million dollars' worth of property being destroyed. 



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The city now consists of five boroughs, Manhattan (Island), the Bronx 
(north of East River), Brooklyn, Queens (suburbs of Brooklyn), and Rich= 
mond (Staten Island). 

The consolidation of these municipalities into one great city of three hun- 
dred and twenty square miles and three million population was accomplished by 
the affirmative vote of the people in 1894 ; a charter was granted by the State in 
1896, and went into effect January 1, 1898. 

Population of New York from early settlement to present time — all the 
boroughs being included in the years 1898, 1899, and 1900 — is as follows : — 

1653 1,120 1835 253,028 

1661 1,743 1840 312,710 

1673 2,500 1845 358,310 

1696 4,455 1850 515,547 

1731 8,256 1855 629,904 

1750 10,000 1860 813,669 

1756 10,530 1865 726,836 

1771 21,865 1870 942,292 

1774 22,861 1875 1,041,886 

1786 23,688 1880 1,206,299 

1790 33,131 1890 1,515,301 

1800 60,489 1892 1,801,639 

1805 75,587 1893 1,891,306 

1810 96,373 1897 1,957,284 

1816 100,619 *1898 3,350,000 

1820 123,706 *1899 3,549,558 

1825 166,136 *1900. . 3,595,93? 

1830 202,589 ^Estimated. 



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Population of the towns from the State Census of 1802, now included in 
Greater New York: — 

New York City 1,801,739 

Brooklyn 995,276 

Richmond County 53,452 

Flushing. 19,802 

Hempstead 17,556 

Jamaica 14,441 

Long Island City 30,506 

Newtown 17,549 

East Chester, West Chester, and Pelham 35,000 

2,985,422 

Assessed Valuation of Greater New York Real Estate. Assessed val- 
uation of the Borough of Manhattan for the year 1899 compared with the 

year 1898 : - 

1898. 1899. Increase. 

$1.-754,982,400 $2,054,908,875 $299,920,475 

Assessed valuation of the Borough of Bronx for the year 1899 compared 
with the year 1898 : — 

1898. 1899. Increase. 

$101,585,523 $123,702,030 $22,116,507 

Assessed valuation of the Borough of Brooklyn for the year 1899 compared 
with the year 1897 : — 

1897. 1899. Increase. 

$570,107,742 $609,822,267 $39,714,525 

Assessed valuation of the borough of Queens for the year 1899 compared 
with the year 1897 : — 

1897. 1899. Increase. 

$82,683,593 $103,752,600 $21,068,007 

Assessed valuation of the Borough of Richmond for the year 1899 com- 
pared with the year 1897 : — 

1897. 1899. Increase. 

$24,371,551 $40,264,692 $15,894,141 

Total assessed valuation of the real estate of the five boroughs of Greater 
New York for the year 1899 was $2,932,445,464. The personal valuation for the 
year 1899 was $545,906,565, making a grand total of $3,478,352,029. 

Battery Park, on the southern point of ancient New York, contains 
twenty-one acres of land with large shade trees. Here are located the Revenue 
Barge office and ferries to Brooklyn and Staten Island. A statue of John Erics- 




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son, erected in 1893, stands on the park. The park was the site of the original 
New Amsterdam, and at an early date a battery was built, and was rebuilt at the 
time of the Revolution. In 1805 a fort was completed and named Fort Clinton, 
and is the same now known as Castle Garden. 

Castle Garden was erected as a fort in 1805 by the United States govern- 
ment and was then some distance from the mainland. The waterway 
between was afterward filled in. In 1822 the fort, then known as Castle Clinton, 
was ceded to New York City. The building was used as a theatre and opera- 
house up to 1855, when the city government occupied the place as a depot for 
immigrants. 

The Aquarium at Castle Garden is open to the public without charge. 

American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, was organized in 1825. 

The American Seamen's Friend Society, 70 Wall Street, was established 
in 1828. 

The first tavern in New York was a stone building, near what is now 
Pearl Street and Coenties Slip, Built in 1642. 

Martin Krigler built his tavern at Bowling Green in 1643. The house 
was afterwards known as the King's Arm Tavern, and in Revolutionary days 
was the headquarters of General Gage. 

Burns's Coffee=House, on Broadway, north of Trinity Churchyard, was on 
the site of the Boreel Building. 

A theatre was built in 1761, at Nassau and Beekman streets, where Temple 
Court now stands. 

The John Street Theatre was built on the north side of John Street in 
1767, near Broadway. It was taken down in 1798. 

Bull's Head Tavern was in Bowery Lane. 

Nassau Street Theatre was built on the east side of the town, then called 
Kip, between John Street and Maiden Lane. Built of wood and opened 
March 5, 1750. The first playhouse erected in New York. In 1753 another 
theatre was built on its site, and was in a few years used as a church. It was 
torn down in 1765. 

La Montagne Tavern was opposite the present City Hall Park. 

Park Theatre was on the site of Nos. 21 to 25 Park Row. It was opened 
January 29, 1798, and burned May 25, 1820. It was rebuilt in 1821 and again 
destroyed by fire December 16, 1848. All the great actors of this country, and 
those from abroad, played in this theatre the first half of the nineteenth century. 

The Merchants' Coffee=House was at the corner of Water and Wall 
streets. 

Fraunce's Tavern, originally the homestead of the DeLancey family, was 
a brick building, erected in 1730 at the corner of Pearl and Broad streets. The 
estate was sold in 1762 to Samuel Fraunce, who opened it as a tavern and named 











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it the Queen Catharine. It was well patronized by the townspeople for social 
gatherings. The Chamber of Commerce for many years had headquarters at the 
tavern. Washington, while in New York, made it his headquarters, and in the 
assembly room delivered his farewell address to the officers of the Continental 
Army in 1783. 

French's Hotel occupied the site of the Pulitzer Building. 

Golden Eagle Inn stood until 1893 back of the Broadway Central Hotel. 

Society for Promoting the Gospel Among Seamen in the Port of New 
York, 46 Catharine Street, was founded in 1818. The Mariners' church, 
library, and reading-room is maintained by the society. 

The Old Dutch Vauxhall was at the corner of Warren and Greenwich 
streets. 

Salvation Army. Headquarters, 111 Reade Street. Barracks for meet- 
ings are located in different parts of the city. 

Vauxhall was on Broadway near Broome Street. 

The Bank Clearing House, Cedar Street, east of Broadway, was occupied 
by the Clearing House Association in January, 1896. It was built of marble, 
and is one of the finest buildings in the city. 

Newspapers. The first was the Gazette, printed from 1725 to 1741 ; The 
Weekly Journal, 1733-1746 ; Evening Post, 1746-1747 ; Independent Reflector, 
1752-1754; Mercury, 1752-1783; Pacquet, 1753-1767; American Chronicle, 
1761-1762 ; The New York Journal, 1766-1787 ; The Argus, 1787-1800 ; Ameri- 
can Citizen, 1800-1810; Chronicle, 1766; New Gazetteer, ox The Connecticut, Nezv 
Jersey, Hudson's River, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, 1773-1775 ; Riviugston , s 
New York Loyal Gazette, 1777-1783 ; Constitutional Gazette, 1775 ; The American 
Watchman, 1800-1810 ; New York Packet and The American Advertiser, 1776 ; 
New York Daily Advertiser, 1785 ; Independent Jotirnal, 1787 ; Gazette, 1788- 
1840 ; United States Gazette, 1789-1790 ; Minerva, 1793 ; The Commercial Adver- 
tiser, 1797 ; The Evening Post, 1801 ; and the Currier Mercantile Advertiser, 
Columbian, and National Advocate were all published near the beginning of the 
nineteenth century. The prominent papers at the present time are the Tribune, 
Herald, Sun, World, Times, News, Press, Journal, Mail and Express, Evening 
Post, Commercial Advertiser, and Staats Zeituug. 

The General Post=off ice is at the junction of Broadway and Park Row. 

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States has its head- 
quarters at the Morse Building, 140 Nassau Street. 

Bar Association of New York, Bar Association Building, No. 42 West 
Forty-fourth Street. 

The Lawyers' Club, 120 Broadway. 

New York Stock Exchange, Broad and New streets. The building is of 
marble and granite. 




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Subtreasury of the United States is on Wall Street, corner of Nassau 
Street, and extending to Pine Street. The site was originally where the City 
Hall stood when it was occupied by the first Congress of the United States in 
1789, and, as Federal Hall, was the scene of the first inauguration. Congress 
abandoned the building when it assembled at Philadelphia. The building was 
used afterwards by the government as the Custom House, and was torn down 
in 1834. The present building was completed in 1841, and was occupied as the 
Custom House until 1862, when the old Merchants Exchange Building was 
taken for the Custom House and the Subtreasury occupied the building. It is 
constructed of stone, of Greek style, with eight large columns supporting the 
porch, and has stone steps the width of the front of the building. In the centre 
of the steps is the heroic-sized bronze statue of Washington, unveiled November 
26, 1883. Set in the pedestal is a slab of red sandstone that formed part of the 
flooring of the balcony of Federal Hall when Washington, standing on this 
identical stone in the balcony on this spot, took the oath of office as first Presi- 
dent of the United States, April 30, 1789. 

United States Assay Office. The building on Wall Street adjoining the 
Subtreasury ; a branch of the United States Mint Building ; built in 1823 ; has 
been occupied by the assay office since 1853. 

Coffee Exchange, corner of Pearl and Beaver streets, was organized in 1882. 

Consolidated Petroleum and Stock Exchange, corner of Broadway and 
Exchange Place. 

The Middle Dutch Church, Nassau Street, of ancient Dutch style, with 
wooden steeple, stood on the site of the Mutual Life Building, and was erected 
in 1729. The church was used as a prison by the English during the Revolution, 
and more than three thousand of the American army were confined there. The 
old church was sold in 1844 to the United States government, and was used for a 
while as the post-office. 

The Bronze Statue of Nathan Hale, the martyr of the Revolution, 
stands on City Hall Park, near Broadway and Wall Street, and was erected by 
the Sons of the Revolution in 1893. 

Burton's Chambers Street Theatre, originally Palmer's Opera House, 
was opened February 4, 1844, for grand opera. It was occupied by Christy's 
Minstrels during the summer of 1846, and leased by Burton, July, 1848. It was 
afterwards named the American Theatre. In 1857 it was leased to the United 
States government and occupied for offices. The building was sold in January, 
1876, and the site is now occupied by the American News Company. 

Free Circulating Library was founded in 1880. It has four buildings : 49 
Bond Street, 135 Second Avenue, 226 West Forty-second Street, and 251 West 
Thirteenth Street. It was incorporated on March 15, 1880, and reincorporated 
April 18, 1884. The library has more than seventy-five thousand volumes. It has 



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received large donations of books and money from citizens, and yearly grants of 
money from the city, 

New York College of Dentistry, Twenty-third Street and Third Avenue, 
was chartered in 1866. 

Barnum's Museum was opened on Chambers Street in 1810, where the 
Court House now stands. Scudder's American Museum was purchased in 1841, 
and the curiosities removed to Broadway and Ann Street, where the New York 
Herald Building stands, by P. T. Barnum. It was partly burned in 1864, and 
was destroyed by fire, July, 1865. It was then established at 530-541 Broadway, 
and burned March 3, 1868. It opened again on south side Fourteenth Street, 
and was burned December 24, 1872. 

Astor Place Opera House was opened November 22, 1 847. Here took 
place the Macready riot on May 9, 1849. It was renamed the New York Theatre 
in 1852. In 1854 it was sold to the Mercantile Library Association, and named 
Clinton Hall. In 1890 the building was demolished and the new Clinton Hall 
and Mercantile Library building erected on the site. 

Brougham's Lyceum Theatre on Broadway near Broome Street was 
opened December, 1850. It was named Wallack's Theatre in 1855, and torn 
down in 1869. 

The Kennedy House was built in 1760, afterwards the Washington 
House. It stood where the Washington Building now stands, No. 1 Broadway. 
It was General Putnam's headquarters previous to the battle of Long Island, 
and was occupied at different times by Lord Howe, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Henry 
Clinton, Benedict Arnold, and Talleyrand. 

Tripler Hall, on Broadway opposite Bond Street, was burned January 8, 
1854. It was rebuilt and opened September 18 as the New York Theatre and 
Opera House. Within a few years it bore the names of Laura Keene's Varieties, 
Burton's Theatre, and Winter Garden Building in 1864. It was destroyed by 
fire, March 23, 1867. 

Chamber of Commerce, 32 Nassau Street. Organized April 5, 1768. 
Incorporated March 13, 1770. Reincorporated by State of New York, April 13, 
1784. 



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IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 

Foreign Imports at the Port of New York. Statement exhibiting the 
value of foreign merchandise (including coin and bullion) imported into the 
port of New York for twenty years ended June 30, compared with the total im- 
ports of the United States. 

Fiscal year ended June 30. 

New York. United States. 

1879 $314,115,362 $466,073,775 

1880 543,595,398 760,989,056 

1881 535,753,818 753,240,125 

1882 521,275,897 767,111,964 

1883 508,700,476 751,670,305 

1884 486,355,355 705,123,955 

1885 406,035,435 620,769,652 

1886 434,548,789 674,029,792 

1887 497,936,845 752,490,560 

1888 510,268,432 783,295,100 

1889 479,428,125 774,094,725 

1890 527,497,196 823,286,735 

1891 553,188,712 881,175,643 

1892 576,246,119 897,057,002 

1893 560,864,234 910,768,555 

1894 483,835,595 740,730,293 

1895 513,241,192 788,565,904 

1896 530,904,931 842,026,925 

1897 556,948,811 880,278,419 

1898 496,397,952 767,369,109 




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Domestic Exports from the Port of New York. Statement exhibiting 
the value of domestic merchandise (including coin and bullion) exported from 
the port of New York for twenty years ended June 30, compared with the total 
domestic exports of the United States. 

Fiscal year ended June 30. 

New York. United States. 

1879 $338,817,546 $717,093,777 

1880 338,441,664 833,294,246 

1881 402,305,090 898,152,891 

1882, 370,497,741 776,720,003 

1883 362,571,653 825,846,813 

1884 363,055,394 775,190,487 

1885 349,939,225 751,059,056 

1886 346,412,339 717,888,646 

1887 319,357,498 725,733,263 

1888 325,789,244 717,057,608 

1889 380,652,425 810,497,603 

1890 370,322,430 881,076,017 

1891 433,299,274 971,243,548 

1892 461,772,231 1,075,818,429 

1893 452,535,663 956,658,192 

1894 452,644,968 972,761,378 

1895 401,150,796 88t),730,334 

1896 491,400,781 1,023,331,382 

1897 467,624,856 1,127,701,948 

1898 486,238,059 1,268,591,929 

Foreign Exports from the Port of New York. Statement exhibiting 
the value of foreign merchandise (including coin and bullion) exported from 
the port of New York for twenty years ended June 30, compared with the total 
foreign exports of the United States. 

Fiscal year ended June 30. 

New York. United States. 

1879 $12,409,385 $19,541,057 

1880. 12,192,062 19,487,331 

1881 16,429,998 23,631,302 

1882 16,162,827 23,239,733 

1883 21,166,859 29,812,922 

1884 21,557,810 32,456,505 

1885 17,828,096 33,362,224 

1886 21,573,887 34,099,594 

1887 15,153,385 26,447,639 





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1888 $10,108,015 $25,311,082 

1889 10,727,560 28,545,305 

1890 15,845,974 28,901,087 

1891 13,404,649 22,190,904 

1892 23,202,528 37,405,005 

1893 20,905,507 40,425,105 

1894 24,837,828 40,808,520 

1895 19,898,320 31,571,598 

1890 17,058,504 32,227,173 

1897 11,037,505 25,599,820 

1898 14,319,405 33,402,031 



St. Peter's Church, Barclay and Church streets, is the oldest Roman 
Catholic organization in the city. The first church was erected in 1780, and 
in 1830 the present stone church was erected on its site. 

St. Patrick's Church, Mott and Prince streets, was built in 1815, and is 
the oldest of the Catholic church buildings in the city. 

The Grand Central Station, East Forty-second Street and Fourth (Park) 
Avenue, is one of the largest railroad stations in the country. It was thoroughly 
remodelled in 1898. A stairway leads to the Third Avenue Elevated Railway, 
which connects with Brooklyn. The New York Central & Hudson River 
Railroad, the New York & Harlem Railroad, and the New York, New Haven & 
Hartford Railroad occupy the station as their New York terminus. 

The West Shore and the Ontario <St Western Railroads and connec- 
tions. Terminus is at Weehawken, north of Hoboken, and connects by ferries 
with New York. 

Delaware, Lackawanna 6t Western, and Morris & Essex Railroads. 
Depot in Hoboken, ferries to Barclay Street and Christopher Street, New York. 

Erie Railroad, Chicago & Erie Railroad, New York & Greenwood 
Lake Railroad, New Jersey Northern Railroad and connections. Station is 
at Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, connecting with New York by ferries to 
Chambers Street and West Twenty-third Street. 

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Baltimore & Ohio, and Philadelphia 
& Reading Railroad and connections. Ferry, Pier No. 15, foot of Liberty 
Street, New York. The Baltimore & Ohio (Royal Blue Line) has another 
terminus at South Ferry, connecting with all the elevated railways. 

Pennsylvania Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York, Susque- 
hanna & Western Railroad, New Jersey Midland, Station in Jersey City, 
and connects by ferries with Desbrosses, Cortlandt, and West Twenty-third 
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The New York & Putnam Railroad (a. division of the New York Cen- 
tral Railroad) to Brewster's, connecting with the Harlem Railroad, New York & 
New England Railroad. Its station is at the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth 
Street terminus of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway, New York. 

Long Island Railroad. Station, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, and station 
on East River, in Long Island City, with ferries to New York. 

The Statue of Abraham De Peyster stands in Bowling Green Park. 

Bronze Statue to Benjamin Franklin stands in Printing House Square, 
and was unveiled in 1872. 

New York Typographical Society, 106 Fulton Street. 

National Guard, State of New York, in Manhattan Borough. First 
Brigade: Ninth Regiment, armory, West Fourteenth Street; Twelfth Regiment, 
armory, Columbus Avenue and Sixty-second Street ; Twenty-second Regiment, 
armory, Sixty-seventh Street and Broadway; First Battery, armory, 340 West 
Forty-fourth Street. 

Fifth Brigade : Seventh Regiment, armory, Park Avenue and Sixty-seventh 
Street ; Eighth Regiment, armory, Park Avenue and Ninety-fourth Street ; 
Sixty-ninth Regiment, armory, Third Avenue and Seventh Street; Seventy-first 
Regiment, armory, Park Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street ; Second Battery, 
armory, Fourth Avenue and Thirty-third Street; Squadron A, armory, Madison 
Avenue and Ninety-fourth Street ; Signal Corps, armory, Park Avenue and 
Thirty-fourth Street. 

Naval Reserve: First Naval Battalion, U. S. S. "New Hampshire," foot of 
East Twenty-eighth Street. 

Brooklyn Bridge. Connects Manhattan Borough and Brooklyn Borough, 
over the East River from Park Row, Manhattan Borough, to Sands and Wash- 
ington streets, Brooklyn Borough. The bridge was begun January 3, 1870, and 
was opened May 24, 1883. It cost $2,100,000 up to December 1, 1807. Width of 
bridge, 85 feet ; length of river span, 1,595 feet 6 inches ; length of each land 
span, 930 feet; length of New York approach, 1,562 feet 6 inches; length of 
Brooklyn approach, 971 feet. Total length of carriage way, 5,989 feet. Total 
length of bridge, 6,537 feet. Total height of towers above high water, 278 feet. 

Cooper Union, junction of the Bowery, Third and Fourth avenues and 
Seventh Street, is a large brownstone-front building, with seven floors, occupied 
for the instruction of thousands of students. The library has more than thirty- 
five thousand volumes. It was endowed by Peter Cooper. 

Old Bowery Theatre was on the west side of the Bowery, below Canal 
Street. It was built in 1826 and opened in October of that year. Here Forrest, 
Malibran, and Charlotte Cushman played. 

Thalia Theatre, Bowery, near Chatham Square, was the " Old Bowery 
Theatre " of fifty years ago. 




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Young Men's Institute, 222 Bowery, is a branch of the Young Men's 
Christian Association. The building was built of sandstone in 1885, and con- 
tains parlors, reading-room, library, and large hall. 

New England Society, 32 Liberty Street, was founded in 1805. 

Windsor Theatre, 45 Bowery, was built on site of first Windsor Theatre. 

Miner's Bowery Theatre, Bowery, near Broome Street. 

St, George's Society, 70 Broad Street. 

London Theatre, 235 Bowery. 

St. John's Chapel, Varick Street (Protestant Episcopal), was built in 
1807. The front has a Corinthian porch the height of the building, supported 
by four large columns of stone. A handsome spire of wood, 214^ feet high, 
has a tower clock. The burying ground lies on either side of the church. 

St. John's Burying Ground is between Hudson, Leroy, and Clarkson 
streets, with St. John's Chapel adjoining, and was established in 1830. 

Hudson Park is bounded by Hudson, Leroy, and Clarkson streets. 

St. Augustine's Chapel, 105 East Houston Street (Protestant Episcopal), 
was erected in 1877. In the building is the chapel of the Mission House. A 
tall spire ornaments the front elevation, and contains a bell made in 1700 and 
given in 1704 to the first English parish church in New York by the Bishop of 
London. 

Trinity Church, Broadway and Rector Street (Protestant Episcopal), was 
organized by an Act passed by the Colonial Assembly in 1693. In 1697 a royal 
charter was granted, and in March of that year a small wooden building, on the 
site of the present church, was opened for service. In 1705 a royal grant of the 
Queen's Farm, comprising a large tract of land bordering on the North River, 
within the present city limits, was made to Trinity Church. A great deal of 
this land has been disposed of by the church, but what remains of the land and 
buildings thereon is valued at more than eleven million dollars, with an annual 
income to the church of more than half a million dollars. 

About 1737 the first church edifice was rebuilt, and was destroyed by fire 
in 1776. The second church was built on the site of the old church in 1788. 

The present church was erected in 1846, being the third edifice erected on 
the original site. It is of Gothic style, with a spire 284 feet high. In the tower 
is a fine chime of bells. The ancient burying ground is on both sides of the 
church. 

Trinity Churchyard, Broadway, opposite Wall Street, surrounds Trinity 
Church. Here are buried many of the, old settlers of the city and generations 
of their descendants. Among them are Captain Lawrence, of the " Chesapeake ; " 
^ Alexander Hamilton, Matthew L. Davis/Albert Gallatin, Robert Fulton, Bishop 
Benjamin Moore, Brig. Gen. Third Earl of Stirling of the Revolutionary army ; 
Benjamin Faneuil, father of Peter Faneuil ; William Bradford, printer, died 1752, 





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aged ninety-two years ; Charlotte Temple, Gen. Phil Kearny, Gen. John 
Lamb, Lieut. -Gov. James De Lancey, Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. The monument to the American soldiers who died in the 
prison pens during the occupation of the city by the British, stands on the grounds 
facing Pine Street. In the ground around the monument lie the remains of 
these patriots. 

Broome Street Tabernacle, 395 Broome Street, is built of brick. 

St. Nicholas Hotel, 4 Washington Place. 

John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 44 John Street. It was 
organized in 1766, and in 1768 a stone church was built on John Street and 
called Wesley Chapel. A second church was erected on the same site in 1817, 
and in 1841 the present church was built. 

St. Paul's Chapel, corner of Broadway and Vesey Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was built in 1764-66. It is the oldest church edifice in the city. Its 
handsome colonial spire is at the rear of the building. The adjoining burying 
ground contains many interesting memorials of the dead. 

St. Paul's Churchyard is on Broadway, between Vesey and Fulton 
streets. Many distinguished persons are buried in this ground. Among them 
are Major Job Sumner of the Massachusetts Continental line, Major John 
Lucas of the Georgia line, Lieut.-Col Beverly Robinson, Philip Blum, sailing 
master of flagship " Saratoga," jatt^e of Lake Champlain ; Col. Etienne Marie 
Becket, the Sieur de Rochefontaine of Count Rochambeau's army, and Capt. 
Baron de Rehenau, Hessian officer. There are monuments to Thomas Addis, 
Emmet, Irish patriot, and to George Frederick Cooke, the actor. 

Astor House, Broadway, Barclay and Vesey streets, has been a noted 
hotel for more than half a century. It has a solid granite front, and is nearly 
opposite the post office. 

St. Matthew's Church, 354 Broome Street, was organized in 1653, and is 
the oldest Lutheran society in the city. In 1841 a church in Walker Street 
was purchased. In 1868 the church in Broome Street was bought from the 
Baptists. 

University Place Presbyterian Church was organized in 1845 by mem- 
bers from the Duane Street Church. The present church, built of stone, was 
erected in 1844. 

Niblo's Theatre, each side of Broadway, between Prince Street and Hous- 
ton Street, was opened in May, 1843, and burned September, 1846. It was 
rebuilt in 1849, burned May 1872, and again rebuilt in 1872. 

Peter Cooper Statue is in the park opposite Cooper Union. 

Bronze Statue of Horace Greeley, in the front entrance to the Tribune 
office, was unveiled in 1890. 

S. S. Cox. Bronze statue erected by the letter carriers on Astor Place. 



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New York Ladies' Home Missionary Society, 63 Park Street. 
Women's Prison Association, 110 Second Avenue. 

Women's Auxiliary Board Missions, 283 Fourth Avenue. 

Astor Library, Lafayette Place, was incoporated January 1, 1849. It was 
founded by a bequest of $400,000 in the will of John Jacob Astor and opened to 
the public in 1854. In 1859 William B. Astor, son of the founder, gave $550,000 
for building a second building in Lafayette Place. In 1881 John Jacob Astor, 
grandson of the founder, built the third hall, giving $800,000. The buildings 
are of brownstone, two hundred feet front by one hundred feet deep. The library 
contains three hundred thousand books and twenty-five thousand pamphlets. 

Cooper Union Library, in the Cooper Institute, was founded by Peter 
Cooper April 29, 1859. There are more than forty thousand volumes in the library. 

New York Society Library, 67 University Place, was founded in 1700, 
and is the oldest library in the city. In 1754 the library was placed in charge of 
trustees, and until 1795 was located in the City Hall. In 1795 a large building 
was erected for the library on Nassau Street. In 1836 the building was sold 
and the books were removed to the rooms of the Mechanics' Society, in Chambers 
Street, where they remained until 1840, when a new building at the corner of 
Broadway and Leonard Street was completed. In 1853 this building was sold, 
and the books were kept in the Bible House until 1856, when the present 
library building was completed. There are about one hundred thousand vol- 
umes in the library. 

Hamilton Fish Park, Houston and Willett streets. 

Laura Keene's Varieties, Broadway, near Houston Street, was opened 
November 18, 1856. In 1863 it was opened as Mrs. John Wood's Olympic 
Theatre and torn down 1880. 

Broadway Athenaeum, Broadway, opposite Waverly Place, was opened 
January 23, 1865. It was opened as Daly's New Fifth Avenue Theatre in Janu- 
ary, 1873, and in 1881 was changed to Harrigan & Hart's New Theatre Comique. 
The building was burned December 23, 1884. 

Biographical Society of America, 109 University Place. 

Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in 1786. First 
church was erected in 1818, and known as the Bowery Village Church. The 
building was later removed to Seventh Street, and was again removed to Third 
Avenue. In 1836 the present church was erected. 

Middle Collegiate Church, Second Avenue and Seventh Street. Built its 
first church in 1729 on Nassau Street. The second church was in Lafayette 
Place from 1839 to 1887. In 1892 the third church was erected on Second Avenue. 

The Mercantile Library, junction of Eighth Street, Astor Place, and 
Lafayette Place, was founded November 9, 1820. The association erected in 
1830 the first Clinton Hall, corner of Nassau and Beekman streets, on the site 



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where Temple Court now stands. In 1854 the library was removed to the Astor 
Place Opera House. In 1891 the opera house was taken down, and the second 
Clinton Hall was erected on its site by the library trustees and the Clinton Hall 
Association. There are about two hundred and seventy-five thousand volumes 
in the library. 

Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen, 65 
Wall Street, was founded in 1841. It has three chapels and a sailors' home. 

Germania Theatre, East Eighth Street, near Broadway, was formerly the 
Eighth Street Theatre. 

St. Mark's Church, Second Avenue and Tenth Street (Protestant Episco- 
pal), was organized in 1791. The edifice is of Colonial style, with high porch, 
heavy pillars and steeple, and was constructed in 1829. On the wall of the 
church is a tablet in memory of Gov. Petrus Stuyvesant, whose remains are 
interred in a tomb belonging to the church. 

Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was built in 1840 of brownstone. 

Bible House, Third and Fourth avenues, from Eighth to Ninth streets, is 
owned by the American Bible Society. It is six stories high and covers the 
whole block. Here are located the offices, library, and publishing departments 
of the society. A score of societies connected with religious work have rooms 
in the building. 

The American Bible Society was organized in New York in May, 1816. 

Ladies' Christian Union, 49 West Ninth Street. 

Tompkins Square, between Avenues A and B and East Seventh and East 
Tenth streets, is about ten acres in extent. 

Holland Society of New York was organized and incorporated in 1885. 
It is formed of descendants of Dutch citizens of America in the male line prior 
to 1675. 

New East River Bridge. Tower foundations in Manhattan Borough are 
at foot of Delancey Slip, and in Brooklyn Borough between South Fifth and 
South Sixth streets. The main span is 1,600 feet; entire bridge between 
terminals, 7,200 feet; width of bridge, 118 feet; height of bridge above high 
water, 135 feet ; height of centre of cables at top of towers above high water, 335 
feet. The bridge will end at Norfolk Street, Manhattan Borough ; at west of 
Roebling Street, in borough of Brooklyn. The estimated cost is $12,000,000. 

American Yacht Club has its rendezvous and clubhouse at Milton Point, 
Long Island Sound. 

Cedar Park is bounded by Sedgwick Avenue, Juliet Street, Walton and 
Mott avenues. 

Grand Army of the Republic has fifty-five posts, with headquarters for 
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Jeanette Park, Coenties Slip, between Front and South streets. 

Grace Church, Broadway, near Tenth Street (Protestant Episcopal), was 
organized in 1808. The first church was erected at the corner of Broadway and 
Rector Street. The present church was erected in 1844, with walls of white 
limestone and the spire of marble in Gothic architecture. 

North Baptist Church, 234 West Eleventh Street. The society was 
organized in 1827. The first church was built on Christopher Street in 1828 and 
the present church erected in 1882. 

St. Denis Hotel, Broadway and Eleventh Street, is opposite Grace Church. 

First Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue, between Eleventh and 
Twelfth streets. The society was formed in 1717, and the first meetings were 
held in City Hall. In 1719 the Wall Street Church was opened, and in 1740 
George Whitefield preached in the church. The present church was erected in 
1845, and is of Gothic style, with a large tower with belfry. 

Presbyterian House, Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street. The building 
was formerly the home of the Eenox family. Here are the Home and Foreign 
Mission Board, the Board of Church Erection, the Woman's Boards, and other 
Presbyterian Societies. 

First Reformed Presbyterian Church, 123 West Twelfth Street, was 
organized in 1797. In 1845 the Union Presbyterian Church on Prince Street 
was purchased by the society and the present church opened in 1849. 

Tammany Society, East Fourteenth Street, was organized in 1789 and 
occupies a large brick building with spacious hall. 

Tammany Hall General Committee occupies the building of the Tam- 
many Society. It is a political organization. 

Girls' High School, 36 East Twelfth Street. 

Star Theatre, Broadway and Thirteenth Street (formerly Wallack's 
Theatre), was opened in 1861. In 1881 it was known as the Germania Theatre, 
and in 1883 was named the Star. 

Fourteenth Street Theatre, Fourteenth Street, near Sixth Avenue, was 
built in 1866, and rebuilt 1871 as the Lyceum. 

Tony Pastor's Theatre, East Fourteenth Street and Third Avenue. 

Academy of Music, corner of Fourteenth Street and Irving Place. The 
first building was erected in 1854, and burned May, 1866. The present building 
was erected in 1868. 

The Old Guard of the City of New York, corner Fifth Avenue and 
Fourteenth Street, was organized as the Light Guard in 1826 and as the City 
Guard in 1833. It was reorganized and incorporated as the Old Guard in 1868. 

Union Square Theatre, Fourteenth Street, opposite Union Square, was 
opened in 1871 and burned February, 1888. It was rebuilt and opened March, 
1889. 





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Steinway Hall, East Fourteenth Street, between Union Square and Irving 
Place, was erected in 1866. 

Young Women's Christian Association, 7 East Fifteenth Street, was 
founded in 1870 and incorporated in 1873. The building contains a library of 
twenty-five thousand volumes. 

Jefferson Hotel, 102 East Fifteenth Street. 

College of St. Francis Xavier, 39 to 59 West Fifteenth Street and 30 to 
50 West Sixteenth Street, was opened in 1847 and chartered in 1861. Its library 
contains thirty thousand volumes. 

Irving Place Theatre, Fifteenth Street and Irving Place, was opened 
December 1, 1888. 

Union Square Hotel (fireproof), 16 East Union Square. 

St. Francis Xavier' s Church, 36 West Sixteenth Street, near Sixth 
Avenue, was erected in 1882 of massive stone in the Roman basilica style, and 
is in charge of the Jesuit Fathers. 

St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Square and East Sixteenth Street 
(Protestant Episcopal), was organized in 1812. The first church was built in 
1752, at Beekman and Cliff streets, which was a chapel of Trinity. The present 
edifice, constructed of brownstone, was erected in 1845. 

Margaret Louisa Home of the Young Women's Christian Association, 
14 and 16 East Sixteenth Street. The corner stone was laid December, 1889. 

Free Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Trades- 
men, 18 East Sixteenth Street, was founded in 1785. There are over one 
hundred thousand volumes in the library. 

Metropolitan College of Music, 19 and 21 East Fourteenth Street, was 
founded in 1886, and incorporated in 1891. 

Philharmonic Society, Carnegie Hall, was organized in 1842. 

Union Square, Broadway, Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets and Fourth 
Avenue, has three and one-half acres. The statues of Washington, Lafayette, 
and Lincoln are on the grounds, which were purchased by the city in 1833. 

Everett House, Union Square, corner Forest Avenue and Seventeenth 
Street. 

St. Mark's Churchyard, corner of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue. 
Peter Stuyvesant over two hundred and thirty years ago built a chapel on the site 
of St. Mark's Church, and was buried in a tomb in the chapel. The old chapel 
was removed when the new church was built, and the remains of Governor Stuy- 
vesant were placed in a tomb beneath the church. Colonel Sloughter, colonial 
governor; Daniel D. Tompkins, governor of New York; Mayor Philip Howe, 
R. S. Livingston, and other noted persons lie in tombs and graves in this ground. 



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Friends' Meeting House, Stuyvesant Square, was organized in 1657. 
First meeting house was built in Little Green Street in 1700 ; second house was 
erected in 1775, on Pearl Street ; third house was erected on Henry Street in 
1827 ; the present brick meeting house erected in 1860. 

Chickering Hall, Fifth Avenue and Eighteenth Street. 

Holy Communion Church, Sixth Avenue and Twentieth Street (Protes- 
tant Episcopal), was erected in 1846 by Mrs. Anna C. Rogers. Her brother, Dr. 
William A. Muhlenberg, was the first rector. 

New York PosUGraduate Hospital and Medical School, 226 Twen- 
tieth Street, was founded in 1882. 

Methodist Mission House, Fifth Avenue, a large stone and brick build- 
ing, eight stories in height, was erected in 1889. 

The Methodist Book Concern, Fifth Avenue and Twentieth Street, was 
established in 1779 on Church Street, and afterwards on Mulberry Street, and 
later on Broadway. 

Unitarian Society, 104 East Twentieth Street. 

Park Theatre, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, 
was opened April, 1874. The building was burned October, 1882, and not 
rebuilt. 

American and Foreign Christian Union, 105 East Twenty-second 
Street. 

Eden Musee, West Twenty-second Street, near Sixth Avenue. 

Booth's Theatre, Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street, was built of 
granite, and opened February, 1869. It was closed as a theatre in 1883, and 
afterwards torn down. 

Grand Opera House, corner of Eighth Avenue and West Twenty-third 
Street, was opened January, 1868. 

Lyceum Theatre, west side of Fourth Avenue, between Twenty-third and 
Twenty-fourth streets, was opened April, 1885. 

Young Men's Christian Association, Fourth Avenue and East Twenty- 
third Street, was organized in 1852. The building was erected in 1869, and is 
a large stone edifice, with large hall, library of fifty thousand volumes, 
parlors, etc. 

Proctor's Theatre, 141 West Twenty-third Street, was opened March 5, 
1888. 

General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
Chelsea Square, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets and Ninth and 
Tenth avenues, was established in 1817 and incorporated in 1822. The build- 
ings are of brick and stone of Gothic architecture. Hobart Hall contains 
twenty-five thousand volumes. 

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Gramercy Park, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets and Third 
and Fourth avenues, contains one and one half acres. 

Stuyvesant Square, Second Avenue, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth 
streets, has an area of four acres. 

Mulberry Bend Park is between the Bowery, Park Row, Canal, Pearl, and 
Elm streets. 

Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 286 fourth Avenue, corner 
Twenty-second Street, was built in 1856. 

St. Andrew's Society, 105 East Twenty-second Street. 

St. David's Society, 105 East Twenty-third Street. 

National Academy of Design, northwest corner of Twenty-third Street 
and Fourth Avenue, was founded in 1826 and incorporated April 5, 1828. The 
building is of white and dark marble, in Venetian Gothic style. 

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 210 West Twenty-third Street, is 
built of stone. 

Hoffman House, Broadway, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth 
streets. The Broadway front of the hotel was erected in 1864. The banquet 
hall is sixty feet square. 

College of the City of New York, Lexington Avenue and East Twenty- 
third Street, was established in 1848 as the Free Academy, and in 1866 was 
given its present name. It has a library of thirty thousand volumes. 

Young Men's Christian Association Library, corner Twenty-third 
Street and Fourth Avenue, was incorporated in 1870 and has fifty thousand 
volumes. 

Calvary Church, Fourth Avenue and East Twenty-first Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was organized in 1835 and the first church built in 1837 on Fourth 
Avenue, near Thirty-fifth Street. The church was moved to the corner of 
Twenty-first Street in 1842. In 1847 the building was taken down, and the 
present church erected with brownstone walls. 

Masonic Temple, northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third 
Street, is a large granite building, owned and occupied by the fraternity of 
Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York. The corner stone was 
laid June 8, 1870, and the building dedicated June 2, 1875. It is occupied by 
the Grand Lodge, Knights Templar, Chapters and Blue Lodges. There are a 
valuable library and museum in the building. 

Trinity Chapel, Twenty-fifth Street (Protestant Episcopal), was erected in 
1856, and constructed of brownstone in Gothic architecture. 

Madison Square Presbyterian Church, Madison Avenue and Twenty 
fourth Street, was organized in 1853, and the church built of brownstone in 
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Madison Square Theatre, West Twenty-fourth Street, near Broadway, 
was completed and opened February, 1880. 

Madison Square Garden occupies the block bounded by Madison and 
Fourth avenues and Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. It is an im- 
mense building 465 feet long by 200 feet wide, surmounted by a lofty tower 249 
feet high, and was opened June 16, 1X ( .)0. 

Madison Square, bounded by Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, 
and Twenty-third and Twenty-sixth streets, has seven acres of land. The Worth 
monument is at the corner of the square, and the Arthur, Farragut, and Seward 
statues, and a bronze statue of Roscoe Conkling stand on the grounds. The 
land was purchased in 1847. 

Madison Avenue Baptist Church, Madison Avenue and East Thirty- 
first Street, was organized in 1839 as the Rose Hill Baptist Church. Its first 
church was on Lexington Avenue. In 1858 the present stone church was 
erected. 

Manhattan Club, corner Twenty-sixth Street and Madison Avenue, was 
organized in 1865 and reorganized in 1877. 

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 7 West Twenty- 
ninth Street, was organized in 1870 and incorporated in 1871. 

American Water=Color Society, 52 East Twenty-third Street, was 
founded in 1866. 

New York Southern Society, 18 and 20 West Twenty-fifth Street, was 
organized in 1886. 

Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, was 
erected in 1854, and is a massive marble building in Gothic style. 

Lotos Club, 556 Fifth Avenue, was organized in 1870 and incorporated in 
1873. 

Broadway Tabernacle Church (Congregational), Broadway, was organ- 
ized in 1840 and the first church erected in 1836 on Broadway. The present 
church, built in 1859 of stone, was afterward remodelled, and has a massive 
tower with belfry. 

Metropolitan Hotel, Broadway and Twenty-seventh Street. 

All Souls' Church, 245 Fourth Avenue, incorporated in 1819, was the first 
Unitarian society in New York. The first church, Chambers Street, was dedi- 
cated in 1820, and the present church erected in 1855. 

Judson Memorial Baptist Church, Washington Square, the successor 
of the Berean Baptist Church, was organized in 1838 on Downing Street. The 
present church was erected in 1892. 

Baptist Tabernacle, 164 Second Avenue, was formed in 1839. The 
first church was on Mulberry Street. The present church was erected in 
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New York Historical Society, 170 Second Avenue, was founded in 1804, 
and incorporated in 1809. It has a library of one hundred and ten thousand 
volumes, and an immense number of pamphlets, maps, manuscripts, engravings, 
and paintings. The society occupied rooms in the City Hall from 1804 to 1809; 
in the Government House, 1809 to 1816 ; in the New York Institute from 1816 
to 1832 ; in Remsen's Building, Broadway, from 1832 to 1837 ; in the Stuyvesant 
Institute from 1837 to 1841; in the New York University from 1841 to 1857. 
In 1857 the society occupied the building on Second Avenue. 

Fifth Avenue Theatre, West Twenty-eighth Street, a few feet from 
Broadway, is built on the site of the theatre of same name burned in 1891, and 
was opened May 28, 1892. 

Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre, Eighth Avenue, near Twenty-sixth Street. 

Garden Theatre, Madison Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, was opened 
September, 1890. 

Church of the Transfiguration, 5 East Twenty-ninth Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), is also known as " The Little Church Around the Corner," and was 
organized in 1849. 

Gerlach Hotel, West Twenty-seventh Street, near Sixth Avenue. 

Bellevue Hospital Medical College is on the grounds of Bellevue 
Hospital, foot of East Twenty-sixth Street, near East River. 

Scottish Rite Hall, Madison Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. The build- 
ing was purchased in 1888 of the Rutgers Presbyterian society. 

The Gilsey House, corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street, is built 
of white marble and iron. 

Brevoort House, Eifth Avenue, near Washington Square. 

Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square, junction of Broadway and Fifth 
Avenue, was opened in 1859. 

Potter's Field, where more than one hundred thousand remains of the 
dead are buried, now the park known as Washington Square, is nine acres in 
area. This ground was used as a training field during the Civil War. 

The University of the City of New York, administration office, 
Washington Square, was incorporated in 1831. The building was completed in 
1835, and is constructed of light limestone, in Gothic style. 

Washington Square, lower end of Fifth Avenue, is nine acres in extent. 
Here is the Washington Arch, constructed of white marble. A bronze bust of 
Alexander Holley, unveiled in 1890, stands in the square. A bronze statue of 
Garibaldi, unveiled in 1888, stands on the ground. 

Daly's Theatre is in the centre of the block on west side of Broadway 
between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. It was opened as Banvard's 
Museum in 1867, and had a number of names before 1879, when Augustin Daly 
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44 GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 

St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, Twenty-eighth and Twenty- 
ninth streets, was organized in 1850. A portion of the building was erected in 
1855 and enlarged in 1865. 

Wallack's Theatre, Broadway and Thirtieth Street, was built by Lester 
Wallack. 

Broadway Music Hall, Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street. 

American Geographical Society, 11 West Twenty-ninth Street, was 
founded in 1852 and chartered in 1854. It has a library of thirty thousand vol- 
umes and nine thousand maps. 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 12 West Thirty-first Street, 
was organized in 1880. It has a library of five thousand volumes. 

Christian Alliance, 92 Eighth Avenue. 

First Moravian Church, Lexington Avenue and Thirtieth Street, was 
organized in 1741. The first church was built in 1751 at the corner of Fulton 
and Dutch streets. The present church is the fourth of the society. 

United Service Club, 16 West Thirty-first Street, was organized and 
incorporated in 1889. 

Park Avenue Hotel, Park Avenue, from Thirty-second to Thirty-third 
streets, is one of the largest hotels in New York. 

Church of the Messiah, Park Avenue and East Thirty-fourth Street, was 
organized in 1825. The first church in Prince Street was destroyed by fire in 
1837. The second church was built on Broadway in 1839. In 1867 the present 
church was erected. 

Thirty* fourth Street Reformed Dutch Church, 307 West Thirty fourth 
Street, was organized in 1823. The first church was built of brick on Broome 
and Green streets. The present Gothic church was built in 1860. 

Harrigan's Theatre, West Thirty-fifth Street, east of Sixth Avenue, was 
opened December, 1890. 

Herald Square Theatre, Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street. 

Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), 114 East Thirty-fifth 
Street, was organized in 1816. In 1821 the church on Pearl Street was purchased. 
In 1838 the Pearl Street church was sold. The present church was built in 
1859 of stone in Doric style. 

Garrick Theatre, Thirty-fifth Street, east of Broadway, was formerly 
Harrigan's Theatre. 

Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue and East Thirty-fifth Street 
(Protestant Episcopal), was built in 1862 of dark sandstone, with spire. 

Richard M. Hunt Memorial, Fifth Avenue, opposite Lenox Library. 

The Bronze Statue of William E. Dodge, Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and 
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New York Club, Fifth Avenue, corner Thirty-fifth Street, was organized 
in 1845 and incorporated in 1874. 

Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street, 
was erected in 1858, of brick and brownstone, and took the place of the Old 
Brick Church, which had stood since 1867 on the corner of Beekman and Nassau 
streets. 

Hotel Marlborough, Broadway, from Thirty-sixth Street to Thirty-seventh 
Street, is a fireproof brick building. 

South Reformed Dutch Church, Madison Avenue and East Thirty-eighth 
Street. The first church was erected on Garden Street in 1693. The second 
church was built on the site of the first in 1807, and destroyed by fire in 1835. 
A church was built on Murray Street in 1849. The church on Fifth Avenue 
was sold in 1890, and the stone church, formerly Zion Episcopal Church, was 
bought. 

Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian 
House, 53 Fifth Avenue, was established in 1834 and chartered in 1862. 

Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue, 
was founded in 1802 and chartered in 1872. 

Abbey's Theatre, corner of Broadway and Thirty-eighth Street, was 
opened in 1893. 

Murray Hill. At the time of the Revolution Robert Murray, a Quaker 
merchant, resided on the hill, and his mansion stood near the junction of Thirty- 
seventh Street and the avenue. 

Murray Hill Hotel, Park Avenue, Fortieth and P^orty-first streets. 

Murray Hill Theatre, Lexington Avenue and Forty-second Street. 

FranconVs Hippodrome was on the site now occupied by the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel. The structure, built of brick, two stories high and 700 feet in circum- 
ference, was opened in 1853. 

Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway and Thirty-eighth Street, was opened 
in 1893-4 as Abbey's Theatre. 

Hotel Imperial, Broadway and Thirty-second Street, is built of light- 
colored brick and cost about $2,300,000. 

Holland House, Fifth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, has a frontage of 250 
feet and is ten stories high. 

Standard Theatre, Sixth Avenue, between Thirty-second and Thirty-third 
streets. The first building was erected in 1873, and known as the Eagle Theatre. 
It was burned December, 1883, and afterwards rebuilt. 

Park Theatre, corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street, was built in 1883. 

Third Avenue Theatre, Third Avenue, near Thirty-first Street. 

Hotel Normandie, Broadway and Thirty-eighth Street, is fireproof. 

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Bijou Theatre, Broadway, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first sheets, was 
opened in 1883. 

Metropolitan Opera House occupies the block bounded by Broaaway, 
Seventh Avenue, and Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, and was opened 
October 22, 1883. The interior was burned August 27, 1892, and was rebuilt 
in 1893. 

Koster & Bial's (Theatre), West Thirty-fourth Street, near Broadway. 

Casino, corner of Broadway and Thirty-ninth Street, was opened October 
22, 1882. 

Manhattan Theatre, Broadway, near Thirty-third Street. 

St. Chrysostom's Chapel, corner of Seventh Avenue and West Thirty- 
ninth Street (Protestant Episcopal), was erected in 1869. 

Union League Club, corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street, was 
organized in 1863 and incorporated in 1865. 

Bryant Park, between Fifth and Sixth avenues and Fortieth and Forty- 
second streets, contains six acres. A bronze bust in memory of Washington 
Irving, unveiled in 1866, stands in the park. A bronze statue of Dr. Marion 
Sims stands on the north side of the park. 

Broadway Theatre, Broadway, Forty-first Street, and Seventh Avenue, 
was opened March, 1888. 

Church of the Covenant, 310 East Forty-second Street, was founded in 
1860 and organized in 1862. A church was erected of stone in 1865 at corner 
of Park Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street. 

Empire Theatre, Fortieth Street, near Broadway, was built in 1892. 

Crystal Palace stood on Sixth Avenue, Fortieth and Forty-second streets 
(now Bryant Park), and covered an area of five acres. It was dedicated July 14, 
1853, and burned October 5, 1858. 

West Presbyterian Church, West Forty-second Street, was organized in 
1829. The first church was erected on Carmine Street in 1832. The present 
edifice was erected in 1862, of Gothic style with lofty spire. 

American Theatre, corner of Eighth Avenue and West Forty-second 
Street, was opened in 1893. 

Grand Union Hotel, Fourth Avenue and Forty-second Street, is opposite 
the Grand Central Station. 

Harmon ie Club, 45 West Forty-second Street. 

Hotel Bristol, corner Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. 

Victoria Theatre, Seventh Avenue and Forty-second Street. 

Temple Emanu=El, Fifth Avenue and East Forty-third Street. The con- 
gregation was formed in 1845 and the temple completed in 1868. 

Library of the New York Academy of Medicine, 17 West Forty-third 
Street, has fifty-five thousand volumes in the library. 



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Century Club, 7 West Forty-third Street, was organized in 1847 and 
incorporated in 1857. 

Racquet and Tennis Club, 27 West Forty-third Street, was organized in 
1875. The clubhouse is built of Longmeadow stone in the Romanesque style. 

New York Theatre, Broadway and Forty-fourth Street. 

Olympia Theatre, Broadway and Forty-fourth Street. 

St. Bartholomew's Church, Madison Avenue and East Forty-fourth Street 
(Protestant Episcopal), was organized in 1835. The first church was in Lafayette 
Place, and the present edifice erected in 1876 in Gothic style, with tower and 
belfry. 

St. Nicholas Club, 7 West Forty-fourth Street. The members are descend- 
ants of citizens of the State prior to 1785. 

Calumet Club, 267 Fifth Avenue, was organized in 1879 and incorporated 
in 1891. It occupies a large brick building. 

Berkeley School, 18 to 24 West Forty-fourth Street. The building is of 
Indiana limestone and brick in Ionic style. 

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 228 West Forty-fifth Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was organized in 1868 and church opened in 1870. 

Berkeley Lyceum, West Forty-fourth Street, near Fifth Avenue. 

Swedish Evangelical Bethesda Church, 240 East Forty-fifth Street and 
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street, was organized in 1878. 

Manhattan Athletic Club, corner of Madison Avenue and Forty-Fifth 
Street, was organized in 1877 and incorporated in 1878. It was a magnificent 
building, constructed of iron and stone. In 1893 the club was financially 
embarrassed, and the building and contents were sold. 

Fifth Avenue Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, 
was dedicated in 1872, and is built of sandstone in the Gothic style. 

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Eighth Avenue and 
West Forty-eighth Street, was organized in 1628 and was the first church organ- 
ized in New York. Meetings were held in a mill until 1633, when a small 
church, built of wood, was erected on Broad Street. A small church, built of 
stone, was erected in 1642 within the walls of Fort Amsterdam. The third 
church was built in 1693 outside of the walls of the fort, on a site now in 
Exchange Place. 

Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, 6 West Forty-sixth Street, was organized 
in 1841 and erected in 1861. Their first church was on Norfolk Street. 

St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Lexington Avenue and East Forty-sixth 
Street, was organized in 1862. 

Buckingham Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street, was opened in 1876. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-first 
streets. The corner stone was laid in 1858 and the cathedral opened in 1879. 



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It is built of white marble and occupies an entire block. Length, 322 feet; 
breadth, 172 feet ; two spires 328 feet high. 

Columbia University was chartered in 1754 and lately occupied the 
brick building in the block between Madison and Fourth avenues and Forty- 
ninth and Fiftieth streets. The elegant new buildings on Morningside Heights 
are now occupied by the college. 

New York Academy of Sciences (Columbia University) was formed in 
1817, under the name of the Lyceum of Natural History. The name was changed 
in 1876. It has a library of ten thousand volumes. 

Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women 
and Children, 213 West Fifty-fourth Street, was chartered in 1865. 

Disciples of Christ (Church), 323 West Fifty-sixth Street, was erected in 
1883, and built of brick in Gothic style. 

New York Medical College and Hospital for Women and Children, 
213 West Fifty-fourth Street, was established in 1863. 

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue, corner of Fifty-fifth 
Street, was organized in 1808. The first church was erected on Cedar Street in 
1808. In 1834 the parish removed to Duane Street. In 1852 the church was 
removed to Fifth Avenue, corner of Nineteenth Street, and in 1875 to its pres- 
ent location. 

Music Hall, corner of Fifty-seventh Street and Seventh Avenue, was 
founded by Andrew Carnegie. The building was opened in 1891 and is con- 
structed of brick and terra cotta. 

Central Presbyterian Church, 220 West Fifty-seventh Street, organized 
in 1820. First church built on Broome Street in 1821, present church built in 1878. 

Catholic Apostolic Church, 417 West Fifty-seventh Street. It was organ- 
ized in 1850. First church purchased in West Sixteenth Street. Present church 
opened in 1886. 

Church of the Strangers, West Fifty-seventh Street and Fighth Avenue. 
A church was purchased in 1870 at 299 Mercer Street. 

Cotton Exchange, Beaver and Williams streets, was organized in 1870 
and incorporated in 1871. The building was erected in 1883-1885. 

The Tombs (city prison) occupies the block bounded by Franklin, Leonard, 
Elm, and Center streets, and was built in 1898, on the site of the old Tombs 
prison. It is used as a place of detention for persons awaiting trial in the courts. 

Produce Exchange, Broadway and Beaver Street, incorporated in 1868, 
building erected in 1881-1884, is one of the finest structures in the city and cost 
over three million dollars. It is 307 feet long and 150 feet wide, built of brick, 
granite and terra cotta in the Italian style, and covers about fifty-four thousand 
square feet of land. 



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Elevated Railways, Manhattan Railway Co. Trains of cars drawn by 
locomotives run every two or three minutes on the four main double-track lines 
and branches. At the terminal station, South Ferry, near the Battery, these 
lines come together. Two of these lines are on the West Side and two on the 
East Side, all continuing to the Harlem River, and the Suburban runs to One 
Hundred and Seventy-second Street. The Ninth Avenue line, built in 1870, 
extends from the Battery to Fifty-ninth Street, where it joins the Sixth Avenue 
line. The Sixth Avenue line, West Side from South Ferry. The Third Avenue 
line from South Ferry. The Second Avenue line from Chatham Square. The 
City Hall branch station at the New York terminus of the Brooklyn Bridge 
at City Hall. 

New York Rapid Transit. The rapid-transit act permits the city to issue 
bonds to the amount of $50,000,000 during the construction of the road, and the 
cost of building must not exceed that amount. Also for the formation of a 
rapid-transit construction company which shall build and operate the road. A 
cash bond of $1,000,000 is to be paid the city as a guarantee for the faithful 
construction of the work. The franchise is granted to the company for fifty 
years, then the city takes possession of the road without cost. The company 
is to pay an annual interest of three per cent on the city bonds after the road is 
in operation. 

The contract for the entire construction of the line has been made with 
John B. McDonald for $35,000,000, and work began March 20, 1900, at the cor- 
ner of Greene and Bleecker streets, when William B. Parsons, chief engineer of 
the rapid-transit commission, struck the first blow in the construction of the 
tunnel by using a pick to remove the first stone. 

The line begins at City Hall Park and is the first section, and here the railway 
will be two stories, running in a loop around the park. The express tracks will 
be on the lower level, so that the line may be extended later to the Battery with- 
out crossing the local lines. Where the double track is located, the lower level 
will be forty feet below the surface. 

Near the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge the two lower tracks will return 
to the level of the others, and from Thirtieth Street the four tracks will run on 
a level, the two inner tracks for express trains. The most difficult point of ex- 
cavation will be near Canal Street, being made ground, and heavy retaining 
walls will be built. 

On Fourth Avenue the electric surface tracks will be moved to one side of 
the street during the excavation, and will be replaced when the work is done. 
At Thirtieth Street the line will make two sections, each with two lines of 
track, running outside and below the street-car tunnel through Murray Hill. At 
Forty-first Street the two branches will unite in a four-track line, turning to 
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another. The lowest level will be the rapid-transit express and the local trains. 
The level above will be for the street-car line from the subway. The next level 
will be the roadway of Park Avenue, and above that will be the branch of the 
Third Avenue elevated. 

Crossing beneath Fifth Avenue the line will run through Forty-second 
Street to Broadway, where it will run to Ninety-sixth Street. At this point the 
tracks will separate, two running down to One Hundred and Third Street, where 
they will turn east, under the outer track through to One Hundred and Fourth 
Street, across the corner of Central Park, up Lenox Avenue to the Harlem 
River at One Hundred and Forty-first Street. The other tracks run up Broad- 
way. At Westchester Avenue the line will leave the tunnel and run upon an 
elevated structure to Bronx Park, the terminus. 

On the West Side the two tracks will run underground to One Hundred and 
Twenty-fifth Street, where they come to the surface and cross Manhattan Valley 
on a viaduct at One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street. At this point they will 
go through a tunnel to Eleventh Avenue above One Hundred and Ninetieth 
Street. From Ellwood Street to Kingsbridge the line will run on the surface. 

The estimated time from City Hall to Ninety-sixth Street is thirteen min- 
utes by express and twenty-one by local trains. From City Hall to Bronx Park 
or Kingsbridge forty-five minutes. 

Hotel Grenoble j Seventh Avenue, from Fifty-sixth to Fifth-seventh streets. 

Oratorio Society, Seventh Avenue, near Fifty-sixth Street, was organized 
in 1873. 

Symphony Society, Seventh Avenue, near West Fifty-sixth Street, was 
organized in 1880. 

Wagner Society, corner Seventh Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street. 

American Society of Civil Engineers, 220 West Fifty-seventh Street, 
was founded in 1852. The building contains a large hall and a library of eight- 
een thousand volumes. 

Society of American Artists, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, was founded 
in 1877. 

Methodist Historical Society, 150 Fifth Avenue. 

Art Students' League of New York, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, was 
founded in 1875, 

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 226 West Fifty- 
eighth Street, was incorporated in 1869. It has a hall, with a large library. The 
society publishes the " New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," of 
which thirty-two volumes have been issued, as well as special volumes. 

Lexington Avenue Opera House, Fifty-eighth Street, near Third 
Avenue. 

Proctor's Pleasure Palace, East Fifty-eighth Street, near Third Avenue. 



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Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue, from Fifty-eighth to Fifty-ninth streets, was 
opened in 1890. F. A. Hammond, Proprietor. 

Hotel New Netherlands Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, opposite 
Central Park. This handsome building is 234 feet high, probably the tallest 
hotel building extant. 

St. Mark's Hotel, 434 Fifth Avenue. 

The Boulevard, from Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, northwesterly 
to One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Street, has two roadbeds divided by lawn, 
with shade trees. 

St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was organized in 1823. The first church was erected at Broadway 
and Houston Street. The present building, erected in 1870, is constructed of 
brownstone, in Gothic style, with a beautiful tower, which has a chime of bells. 

Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church was organized in 1844. The 
church was erected in 1871 of brownstone. 

Hotel Savoy, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, was opened in 1892. 

First Reformed Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue and East Fifty- 
fifth Street. The church was built in 1876 of stone. 

Madison Avenue Reformed Church, corner of Fifty-seventh Street, was 
organized in 1808 as the Northwest Reformed Church. It was located on 
Franklin Street until 1854, then removed to East Twenty-third Street. The 
present church was erected in 1870 of brownstone. 

Zion and St. Timothy (Church), 332 West Fifty-seventh Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was formed in 1890 by the union of the Episcopal parishes of Zion 
and St. Timothy. Zion parish was organized in 1810; St. Timothy parish in 
1853. The church edifice was erected in 1891 in Gothic style, of brick and 
stone, with a massive tower. 

New York Athletic Club, Central Park south, organized in 1868 and in- 
corporated in 1870, has an elegant four-story clubhouse, with bowling alleys, 
baths, swimming-tank, dining-rooms, parlors, reading-rooms, etc. Travers 
Island, near New Rochelle, is owned by the club and contains clubhouse, boat- 
houses, track, and athletic field. 

Lenox Lyceum, Madison Avenue, near Fifty-ninth Street. The building, 
which was opened in January, 1890, contains a fine hall. 

New York College of Music, 128 and 130 East Fifty-eighth Street, was 
founded in 1878. It is a large building, with concert hall. 

Central Park, from Fifty-ninth Street to One Hundred and Tenth Street, 
and from Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue. Construction began in 1857. It is 
laid out on the landscape plan with 862 acres of forest, water, driveways and 
paths, with a great variety of trees and shrubbery. The mall is a grand prome 




Geo. H. Walker & Co., Boston. THE OBELISK. 



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nade over 200 feet wide and a third of a mile long, bordered with large elms. 
The common has an area of 16 acres. The ball ground has 10 acres. The lake 
has 20 acres of surface. The great hill affords extensive views of the surround- 
ing country. There are the Terrace, Bethesda fountain, a statue of Alexander 
Hamilton, a statue of Prof. S. F. B.Morse,' and the monument to Columbus, sur- 
mounted by a bronze statue of the great discoverer, erected in 1S92. 

The Obelisk, " Cleopatra's Needle," was removed from Egypt and brought 
to New York as a gift from the Khedive of Egypt. Its height is 69 feet 2 inches, 
it weighs 220 tons, and it stands on an elevated lawn near the east drive. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, incorporated in 1870, first building erected 
in 1880, is at the east side of the park, opposite Eighty-first Street. In the 
building are the hall of casts of ancient sculpture, hall of Egyptian antiquities, 
hall of ancient statuary, hall of architectural casts, halls of sculptural casts, 
carved wood, hall of glass and ancient pottery. The second floor is devoted to 
paintings, drawings, art collections and pottery, arms and armor, etc. 

The Menagerie, on east side, has a large collection of animals and birds. 

American Museum of Natural History, a part of which has already 
been built of light brownstone, is devoted to mammals and birds, corals, sponges, 
shells, fossils, minerals, etc. 

v Bronze Bust of Beethoven, on a granite pedestal, 15 feet high, stands on 
the mall ; unveiled in 1884. 

Equestrian Statue of Simon Bolivar, the South American patriot, on 
West Eighty-first Street entrance to the park. 

Bronze Statue of Burns, on the mall, was unveiled in 1880. 
^ Bust of Cervantes stands in the park. 

Bronze Figure of Commerce, near Eighth Avenue and Fifty-ninth 
Street entrance. 

Bronze Statue of TIalleck, on the mall, was unveiled in 1877. 

Bronze Bust of Humboldt, near the Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street 
entrance. 

Indian Hunter, a bronze figure, near lower entrance to the mall. 

Bronze Bust of Mazzini, on the West Drive. 

Bronze Bust of Thomas Moore, the poet, near the pond and Fifth 
Avenue and Seventy-second Street entrance, was unveiled in 1871. 

Bronze Statue of Webster, on the West Drive, near Seventy-second 
Street. 

The Pilgrim, bronze statue, near East Seventy-second Street entrance. 

Bronze Statue of Shakespeare, at the lower end of the mall, was un- 
veiled in 1872. 

Seventh Regiment, bronze figure of a soldier of this regiment, in memory 
of its dead in the Civil War, is on the West Drive and was unveiled in 1874. 



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Bronze Statue of Sir Walter Scott, on the mall, was unveiled in 
1872. 

Bronze Bust of Schiller, in the ramble, was unveiled in 1859. 

McGowan's Pass. Near the old McGowan's Tavern are the remains of 
the fort erected by the British, and at this point an encounter took place between 
the Americans and the British in 1776. 

New York and New Jersey Bridge, between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
streets, Manhattan Borough. The length of span is 2,710 feet. Cost of bridge 
to be $17,000,000. The Union Bridge Company has contracted to construct the 
bridge within six years from commencement of work. 

Metropolitan Club, Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, organized in 1891, 
is a beautiful building of white marble. 

Empire Hotel, Boulevard and Sixty-third Street. 

Madison Avenue Hotel, Madison Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street. 

New York Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Sixty-third 
Street and Avenue A, was chartered in 1861. 

Rodolph Sholom (Temple), Lexington Avenue and Sixty-third Street, was 
organized in 1842. The synagogue was erected in 1873. 

Progress Club, Fifth Avenue and Sixty-third Street, was organized in 1864 
and incorporated in 1865. The building is of the Italian Renaissance, and 
was occupied in 1890. 

Baptist Church of the Epiphany, Madison Avenue and Sixty-fourth 
Street, was organized in 1791. The first church was erected of wood, corner of 
Oliver and Henry streets. In 1860 the second church was built on Fifty-third 
Street. In 1882 the present church was erected, constructed of brownstone, 
with two towers. 

B'Nai Jeshurun, Madison Avenue, near East Sixty-fifth Street, was 
founded in 1825. The synagogue was erected in 1885. It is built of stone and 
brick, in the Spanish Moresque style. 

All Souls' Church, Madison Avenue and Sixty-sixth Street (Protestant 
Episcopal), was organized in 1859. In 1861 the first church on West Forty- 
eighth Street was consecrated. In 1890 the parish purchased the Church of the 
Holy Spirit. The building is of stone, with a massive tower. 

Central Turn=Verein was organized in 1886. This organization occupied 
the beautiful building extending from 205 to 217 East Sixty-seventh Street, but 
in 1893 were obliged to relinquish the building. 

Zichron Ephraim (Synagogue), East Sixty-seventh Street, near Third 
Avenue, was built in 1890. 

Bloomingdale Reformed Church, Sixty-eighth Street, is built of stone, 
with spire and belfry. 

Central Opera House, East Sixty-seventh Street and Third Avenue. 



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Union Theological Seminary, Lenox Hill, on Park Avenue, between 
Sixty-ninth and Seventieth streets, was founded in 1836. It has occupied its 
present location since 1884. The library contains eighty thousand volumes and 
sixty thousand pamphlets. 

College of Physicians and Surgeons, 437 West Fifty ninth Street, 
the medical department of Columbia College, was chartered in 1807. 

College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, West Sixty eighth 
Street. Founded 1829. 

New York Trade School, First Avenue and Sixty-eighth street, was 
founded in 1881 by Colonel Richard T. Auchmuty. J. Pierpont Morgan has 
recently given $500,000 as an endowment. 

Shearith Israel (Temple), Central Park West, corner Seventieth Street. 

Normal College for Women, The buildings and grounds occupy the 
block bounded by Park and Lexington avenues and East Sixty-eighth and Sixty- 
ninth streets. 

New York Yacht Club, clubhouse 67 Madison Avenue, was organized in 
1841 and incorporated in 1865. It is the oldest yachting organization in 
America. 

St. James Church, Madison Avenue and East Seventy-first Street (Prot- 
estant Episcopal), was organized in 1810. A chapel was erected in 1810 at 
Sixty-ninth Street and Park Avenue. The second edifice was erected in i860 on 
Seventy-second Street. The present church was erected in 1884 in Gothic style. 

Christ Church, corner of Seventy-first Street and the Boulevard (Protes- 
tant Episcopal), was organized in 1794. The first church was erected on Ann 
Street in 1794. In 1823 the second church edifice was built on Worth Street. In 
1854 the parish erected the present St. Ann's Church on West Eighteenth Street. 
In 1859 the parish purchased from the Baptists a church on Fifth Avenue and 
Thirty-fifth Street. In 1890 the society removed to the present location. 

Lenox Library, Fifth Avenue, between Seventieth and Seventy-first 
streets, was incorporated January 20, 1870. It was the gift of James Lenox. 
The building is of white stone, with two wings. There are over eighty thousand 
volumes in the collection of rare books. 

Beth Israel Bikur Cholim (Synagogue), Lexington Avenue and Seventy- 
second street. The society was formed in 1859. 

Colonial Club, corner of Seventy-second Street and Sherman Square, was 
organized and incorporated in 1889. The building is of gray limestone for the 
first story ; the other stories are of gray brick and terra cotta. 

Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian Church, Boulevard and Seventy-third 
Street, was organized in 1798. 

Majestic Hotel, Central Park West and Seventy-second Street. 

San Remo Hotel, Eighth Avenue and Seventy-fifth Street. 



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Phillips Presbyterian Church, Madison Avenue and East Seventy-third 
Street, was organized in 1844. The first church was built on East Fifteenth 
Street. The present church was erected of brick in Gothic style in 1858. 

St. James Lutheran Church, Madison Avenue and East Seventy-third 
Street, was organized in 1827. The first church was on Orange Street. In 1843 
the second church was erected on Mulberry Street ; the third on Stuy vesant Square. 
In 1890 the present church was erected of Milford granite and brownstone. 

Temple Beth=El, Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street. The congrega- 
tion was formed in 1874. The synagogue was erected in 1891. It is built of 
limestone in Byzantine and Moorish styles. 

Knickerbocker Club, 319 Fifth Avenue, was organized in 1871. The 
members are descendants of original settlers of New York. 

Ohio Society of New York, 236 Fifth Avenue, was organized in 1886 
and incorporated in 1888. 

Union Club, Fifth Avenue, was organized in 1836. The first clubhouse of 
the Union was at 343 Broadway ; the second at 376 Broadway ; the third at 691 
Broadway ; the fourth, the present brownstone building, was opened in 1855. 

Headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, 853 Broadway. 

Church of the Heavenly Rest, 551 Fifth Avenue (Protestant Episcopal), 
was organized in 1865. The interior of the church is richly decorated in marble, 
stained-glass windows, frescoes and paintings. 

Broadway Central Hotel, 665 to 675 Broadway, was built on the site of 
the La Farge House in 1869, and named the Southern Hotel ; aftewards changed 
to the Grand Central. 

St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, Seventy sixth Street, was 
incorporated in 1882, and occupied a stone chapel on West Seventy-first Street. 
The present church was dedicated June 8, 1890. 

West End Avenue Collegiate Church, West End Avenue and Seventy- 
seventh Street, was built in 1892. 

Manhattan Square is an annex to Central Park at Central Park West and 
Seventy-seventh and Eighty-first streets. It nas an area of fifteen acres and was 
purchased in 1839. 

East River Park, foot of Eighty-sixth Street, on the banks of East River. 

American Museum of Natural History, in Central Park, Seventy-seventh 
Street and Eighth Avenue, was incorporated in 1869. In 1874 the corner stone 
of the first building was laid. It is built of brick, with front of red granite. 

Collegiate School, 241 and 243 West Seventy-seventh Street, a private 
school for boys, was organized in 1633. 

Linnasan Society, Central Park West, corner West Seventy-seventh Street. 

First Baptist Church, Boulevard and West Seventy-ninth Street, was 
organized in 1762. In 1762 the first church on Gold Street was built; the 



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second church in 1802 ; the third church, corner Broome and Elizabeth streets, in 
1842. In 1871 the church at Park Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street was dedicated. 
The present church is one of the best styles of architecture in the city. 

All Angels' Church, corner of West End Avenue and West Eighty-first 
Street (Protestant Episcopal), was built in 1890. The society was organized 
about 1850, and its first church was on a lot now incorporated in Central Park. 

Shaarai Tephila (Temple), West Eighty-second Street, near Amsterdam 
Avenue. The congregation was formed in 1845. The temple was erected in 
1865 at 127 West Forty-fourth Street, of freestone in Moorish style. 

New York Turn=Verein, Eighty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, was 
organized in 1849 and incorporated in 1857. 

Park Presbyterian Church, Eighty-sixth Street and Amsterdam Avenue, 
was founded in 1853 and called the Eighty-fourth Street Presbyterian Church. 
The present church was built in 1884. 

Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Park Avenue and 
Eighty-sixth Street, was organized in 1836. It purchased the Church of the 
Bowery and reerected it at Third Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street. Church 
built on same site in 1859, and in 1884 the present brownstone church was 
erected. 

National Society of New England Women, 332 West Eighty-seventh 
Street. 

Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Catholic), 236 East Ninetieth 
Street, was established in 1886. The church was completed in 1892. The front 
is constructed of Rutland marble in Gothic style. 

Scotch Presbyterian Church, Ninety-sixth Street and Central Park 
West, was organized in 1756 from the First Presbyterian Church. The first 
church was on Cedar Street, in 1337 on Grand Street, in 1853 on West Four- 
teenth Street; in 1893 the present church was occupied. 

St. Michael's Church, Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-ninth Street 
(Protestant Episcopal), was organized in 1807. The first church was built in 
1806 ; the second church was built in 1854: the present church was constructed 
in 1891 of stone, with tower 180 feet high, with a chime of bells. 

St. Agnes Chapel, West Ninety-second Street (Protestant Episcopal), was 
erected in 1892. It has a brownstone front and granite walls, and a tower of 
granite and brownstone, with belfry. 

West End Presbyterian Church, Amsterdam Avenue and One Hundred 
and Fifth Street, was organized in 1888. The corner stone was laid June 22, 
1891. The church is built of yellow brick, with a tower. 

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Morningside Park, between One 
Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets (Protestant 
Episcopal^. The corner stone was laid December 17, 1892. The edifice is con- 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 69 

structed of stone, with two front towers 248 feet high. The massive central 
tower is 445 feet high. Length of building outside, 520 feet ; width of front, 
192 feet. 

First Collegiate Reformed Church of Harlem, One Hundred and 
Twenty-first Street, was organized in 1600. The present church was dedicated 
in 1835. 

Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church, Lenox Avenue and One Hundred 
and Twenty-first Street. 

Church of the Holy Trinity, Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and 
Twenty-second Street, Harlem (Protestant Episcopal). The first church was 
built in 1870 on the corner of Fifth Avenue and One Hundred and Twenty- 
fifth Street. The present church was built in 1888 of stone, with a massive 
tower. 

Harlem Club, Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, 
was organized in 1879 and incorporated in 1886. 

Second Collegiate Reformed Church of Harlem, 267 Lenox Avenue, 
corner of One Hundred and Twenty-third Street. 

Harlem Opera House, 207 West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street, 
was opened September 30, 1889. 

St. Andrew's Church, Fifth Avenue and East One Hundred and Twenty- 
seventh Street (Protestant Episcopal), was organized in 1829. The first church 
was erected in 1830; the second church in 1873; the present church in 1889. 
The tali tower has a chime of bells. 

Ahawath Chesed (Temple), 652 Lexington Avenue, was founded in 1850. 
The synagogue was erected in 1872 of stone in Moorish style. 

Association for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, 912 Lexington 
Avenue, was founded in 1867. 

Columbus Theatre, East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street and North 
Lexington Avenue. 

Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Seventh Avenue and West One 
Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street, was organized in 1883. The present church 
was erected in 1887, of stone in Romanesque style, with massive tower. 

St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue and One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-sixth Street. The first church was built in 1834 on One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-fifth Street. The present church was dedicated in 1871. 

Manhattan College, Boulevard and West One Hundred and Thirty-first 
Street, was founded by the brothers of the Christian School (Roman Catholic) 
in 1853, and in 1863 received its charter. It has a fine library and an interesting 
museum. 

Barnard College, Boulevard and West One Hundred and Nineteenth 
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Academy of the Sacred Heart, One Hundred and Thirtieth Street and 
St. Nicholas Avenue, Manhattanville. A stately group of stone buildings with 
ample grounds surrounding. 

St. Luke's Church, Convent Avenue and One Hundred and Forty-first 
Street (Protestant Episcopal), was organized in 1892. It was built of brownstone 
in 1892. The rectory is the old mansion of Alexander Hamilton. 

Metropolis Theatre, One Hundred and Forty-second Street and Third 
Avenue. 

High Bridge. The Croton water of the old aqueduct passes over this bridge. 
It is 1460 feet long and is supported by thirteen arches on granite piers. The 
highest arch is 116 feet above the water level. 

Washington Bridge, at Tenth Avenue and West One Hundred and Eighty- 
first Street, is 2,400 feet long and 80 feet wide. The central arches are 510 feet 
each, and 135 feet above high water. 

Trinity Church Cemetery, Washington Heights, Tenth Avenue between 
One Hundred and Fifty-third and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth streets, was 
established in 1830. The grounds overlook the Hudson River on the west. 
Among the distinguished dead buried here are, Gen. John A. Dix, Madame 
Jumel, Audubon, John Jacob Astor and Fernando Wood. 

Teachers' College, Morningside Heights, was founded in 1889. In 1892 
it received a gift of the land now occupied by the college. The charter was 
granted in 1893. 

Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, One Hundred and Fifty- 
fifth Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The church was built in 1860. It is on 
the site of the battlefield of the Revolution. 

Riverdale Presbyterian Church, Riverdale, was organized in 1863 and 
the church was built that year. 

Morningside Park, from Central Park at One Hundred and Tenth Street 
to One Hundred and Twenty-third Street ; high rocky surface. The remains of 
Fort Laight, a blockhouse built during the War of 1812, are situated at the 
northern end of the park. 

Statutes of Washington and Lafayette, on Washington and Lafayette 
Park, junction of Morningside and Manhattan avenues and One Hundred and 
Fourteenth Street. Presented to the city by Mr. Charles B. Rouss and unveiled 
with appropriate addi esses and commemorative exercises, including an oration 
and music at Carnegie Hall, April 19, 1900. A beautiful pedestal with inscrip- 
tion is surmounted by statues of Washington and Lafayette in Continental 
uniform, with dress swords, and in the background are two flags mounted on 
staffs. 

Morningside Heights, west of Morningside Park. St. Luke's Hospital, 
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the buildings of Columbia University, 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 73 

Teachers' College and Barnard College are handsome buildings with spacious 
grounds. The library of Columbia University contains upwards of two hundred 
thousand valuable books. 

Port Washington was the strongest fortification erected by the Americans 
in the vicinity of New York at the time of the Revolution. 

The Speedway, along the west bank of the upper Harlem River. Length, 
three miles ; width from 125 to 150 feet. Cost $5,000,000. Opened in 1897. 

St, Mary's Park, near Morrisania, contains twenty-five acres. 

Crotona Park has an area of one hundred and thirty-five acres, between 
Morrisania and Tremont. 

Claremont Park, between Inwood and Tremont, beyond the Harlem 
River, contains thirty-eight acres. 

General U. S. Grant's Tomb is on Claremont Heights, in the northern 
part of the park. He died July 23, 1885, and in 1897 his remains were placed 
in the large granite mausoleum which had been built at a cost of about six 
hundred thousand dollars, contributed by the people. 

Mount Morris Square, Harlem, about twenty acres of land, with a hill 
one hundred feet high, on which is an observatory. 

Pelham Bay Park, Westchester County, contains 1,756 acres of land along 
the shore of Long Island Sound, Twin Island, Hunter's Island, and other 
territory. 

Bronx Park, above West Farms, on both sides of the Bronx River, con- 
tains 856 acres. The old Lcrillard mansion is now the office of the superin- 
tendent of the park. 

Van Cortlandt Park is a new reservation of 1,069 acres not laid out. 
The Van Cortlandt station of the New York & Putnam Railroad adjoins the park. 

St. Nicholas Avenue, from Central Park northwest to Fort Washington. 

Hancock Monument, Hancock Square, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street. 

Riverside Park, along the Hudson River, between Seventy-first and One 
Hundred and Twenty-seventh streets. Riverside Avenue borders the park on 
the east, and beautiful estates have been laid out on the avenue. 

Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights, is one of the few buildings of 
colonial times now standing in New York. The mansion was built in 1758, and 
was a wedding gift to Mary Phillips of Phillipsburg Manor, Yonkers, who 
married Col. Roger Morris, a prominent Tory. Miss Phillips was the early love 
of George Washington. When the Continental Army took possession of the 
mansion, Washington selected it as his headquarters. Alexander Hamilton, 
General Putnam, Lafayette, Jerome Bonaparte, Aaron Burr, and many other 
notables were entertained in the mansion. Madame Jumel's maiden name was 
Betty Bowen. She was the daughter of John Bowen of Taunton. She married 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 75 

first Stephen Jumel, a wealthy merchant of New York previous to the Revolu- 
tion. Her second marriage was to Aaron Burr in 1833, when he was seventy- 
eight years old, and she soon separated from him. 

Academy of Mount St. Vincent, above Riverdale, on the Hudson River. 
Large buildings and sixty-three acres of land. 

New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, 
Washington Heights, was established in 1818. 

Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, Fordham Heights, over- 
looking Harlem River, was incorporated in 1889 and opened 1893. The building 
is surrounded with extensive grounds of thirteen acres. 

The Southern Boulevard extends from the north end of Third Avenue 
bridge, thence along the Westchester shore of Long Island Sound to Central 
Avenue at Jerome Park. 

Young Men's Christian Union, 700 Westchester Avenue. 

Central Avenue, from the north end of Central Bridge to Jerome Bark 
and Yonkers. 

Woodlawn Cemetery, twelve miles from City Hall, reached by the New 
York & Harlem Railroad. The cemetery has an area of about four hundred 
acres of land. Lots and tombs are owned by many of the prominent families 
of New York and vicinity, Jay Gould, Henry Clews, Washington E. Connor, 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joseph H. Choate, George L. Loriilard, Austin Corbin, 
Henry M. Flagler, Admiral Farragut, De Long, the Arctic explorer, Dr. Leopold 
Damrosch, and the Sloanes. 

Mount Hope Cemetery, Mount Hope, is just beyond the city of Yonkers 
on the New York & Northern Railway. Several churches in New York have 
purchased large lots in this cemetery, and removed many remains from old bury- 
ing grounds to their lots. 

Kenisco Cemetery is fifteen miles from New York on the Harlem division 
of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. The depot, constructed of 
stone, is located at the entrance of the cemetery. 

High Bridge Park, Harlem River bank and One Hundred and Seventieth 
Street, has an area of twenty-three acres. 



BROOKLYN. 



Brooklyn was named for Breuckelen (Marshland) in the province of Utrecht 
in Holland, from which place some of the first settlers came. A tract of six 
hundred and thirty acres of land was purchased of the Algonquin Indians in 
1636 by William Arianse Bennet and Jaques Bentyn lying at Gowanus. A 
second tract of three hundred and twenty-five acres of land was purchased by 
Joris Jansen de Rapalje at Wallabout Bay, June 16, 1637. In 1642 there were 
at the west end of the island five hamlets, " The Ferry ; " " Breuckelyn," near 
the present Hoyt and Fulton streets, where stood the church ; " Gowanus," 
around Gowanus Bay; "Bedford;" and "The Wallabout," around Wallabout 
Bay. The union of the five hamlets into one village called Breuckelen took 
place in 1646. 

In 1653 it received a Dutch charter, and in 1665 an English charter. In 
1788 the town was organized, and it was incorporated April 12, 1816. It was 
incorporated as a city April 8, 1834. The ground on which the city is built 
rises with a steep grade from the bay and river to a ridge which extends east- 
ward. At its highest point it is about seventy-five feet above tide water, and 
affords an extensive view of the bay. 

The sections of the city are designated The Heights, South Brooklyn, 
The Hill, and Williamsburg. Fulton Street is the main avenue. Half a mile 
from the bridge are located the Court House, Hall of Records, the Municipal 
Building, and the City Hall. On Washington Street stands the Federal Build- 
ing, with the post office and United States courts. 

The Hill. The Republican Union League Club, the Lincoln, the Oxford, 
and the Montauk clubs have fine houses. 

The Heights. Here are located the Academy of Music, Young Men's 
Christian Association building, Brooklyn Library, and Art Association. Long 
Island Historical Society building is on the corner of Clinton and Pierrepont 
streets, and has a library of eighty thousand volumes and many pamphlets. 
The Mansion House, the St. George, and the Pierrepont House are also in this 
section. The Brooklyn, Hamilton, and Excelsior clubs and the Crescent Ath- 
letic Club have fine headquarters. 

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The First Ferry between Manhattan and Long Islands was established in 
1642, about where Fulton Ferry now is. First steam ferry opened May 10, 1814. 

The Old Bergen Farm, South Brooklyn. The old homestead has stood 
for nearly two centuries. 

Dry Dock. The new dock will be completed during 1900. It is located 
between Fifty-fifth and Fifty-eighth streets, South Brooklyn. The dock will be 
large enough to hold a vessel eight hundred feet long. 

Navy Yard, on the Wallabout, East River, at the foot of York Street, has 
an area of one hundred and forty-five acres. The United States Naval Lyceum, 
founded in 1833 by naval officers, has a fine library and a large collection of 
curiosities. The gun park has a formidable array of naval guns and mortars. 
There are a great number of large machine shops and storehouses. In the 
marine barracks a battalion of marines, with band, are stationed here as guard. 
Comfortable residences for the officers stationed here are in the yard. The 
receiving ship " Vermont " is the home of the sailors awaiting orders, and is an 
object of great interest to visitors. Three dry docks are now in use, and a 
fourth of great size will soon be built. 

National Guard, State of New York, in Brooklyn and Queens Bor= 
OUghs. Second Brigade : Thirteenth Regiment, armory, Sumner and Jefferson 
avenues; Fourteenth Regiment, armory, Eighth Avenue and Fifteenth Street; 
Twenty-third Regiment, armory, Bedford and Atlantic avenues ; Forty-seventh 
Regiment, armory, Marcy Avenue and Lynch Street. Third Battery, armory, 
165-179 Clermont Avenue; Seventeenth Separate Company, armory, Flushing; 
Troop C, armory, North Portland Avenue ; Second Signal Corps, armory, 801 
Dean Street. 

Naval Reserve, Second Naval Battalion, headquarters foot of Fifty-fifth 
Street, Brooklyn. 

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, contains 516 1-6 acres of woodland, water, lawn, 
and driveways, laid out in the natural style. From Lookout Hill may be seen 
the Palisades, the Orange Hills, the Atlantic shore, the city of Brooklyn, and 
New York Harbor. A bronze tablet marks the site of part of the battle of 
Long Island, which was fought on the hills of the park and the immediate sur- 
rounding ground. A statue erected in memory of John Howard Payne, author 
of " Home, Sweet Home," stands in the park. A bronze statue erected in 
memory of Major-General G. K. Warren stands near the memorial arch, and was 
unveiled July 4, 1896. There are also a bronze statue of J. S. T. Stranahan, 
and bronze busts of Beethoven, Irving, and Thomas Moore and a heroic bronze 
statue of Abraham Lincoln. 

The Park Plaza, in front of the main entrance to Prospect Park. In the 
centre of the plaza stands a memorial arch, erected in memory of the soldiers 
and sailors of the Federal army in 1892. 



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Ocean Parkway, Prospect Park to Coney Island, is five and a half miles long. 
Eastern Parkway, Prospect Park to Ralph Avenue, is two and a half 
miles long. 

Eastern Parkway Extension, Ralph Avenue to Ridgewood Park, is two 
and a half miles long. 

Fort Hamilton Parkway, Prospect Park to Fort Hamilton, is four and a 
half miles long. 

City Hatt Park, junction of Court and Fulton streets, contains half an acre. 
Baptist Temple, Third Avenue, corner Schermerhorn Street. 
Carroll Park, President, Court, Carroll, and Smith streets, contains two 
acres. 

West End Church (Baptist), Forty-seventh Street, near Third Avenue. 
Winthrop Park, Nassau and Driggs avenues, Monitor and Russell streets, 
contains eight and one half acres. 

Tompkins Park, Tompkins, Greene, Marcy, and Lafayette avenues, con- 
tains seven and three quarters acres. 

First Unitarian Congregational Society, Pierrepont Street, corner of 
Monroe Place. 

Bedford Park, Brooklyn and Kingston avenues; area, four acres. 
Holy Trinity Church (Episcopal), Clinton Street, corner of Montague 
Street. 

Washington Park (Fort Greene) has thirty acres of beautiful grounds, 
where are buried eleven thousand victims of the British prison ships at the time 
of the Revolution. 

Plymouth Church (Congregational), Orange Street, near Hicks Street, 
was built in 1847. 

Young Men's Christian Association, 502 Fulton Street. 
Grand Opera House, Elm Place, near Fulton Street. 
Montauk Theatre, 587 Fulton Street. 
Park Theatre, 383 Fulton Street. 
Star Theatre, Jay Street, near Fulton Street. 
Amphion Theatre, 439 Bedford Avenue. 

Hyde & Behman's Theatre, Adams Street, near Myrtle Avenue. 
Flatbush Free Library, 5 Caton Avenue. 

Memorial Hall, Schermerhorn Street, near Flatbush Avenue. 
Free Lending Library of the Union for Christian Work, 67 Schermer- 
horn Street. 

Young Women's Christian Association, Schermerhorn Street and Flat- 
bush Avenue. 

Criterion Theatre, Fulton Street, near Grand Avenue. 
Law Library, Room 16, Court House. 



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St. Mary's General Hospital, Rochester, Buffalo, and St. Mark's avenues 
(Sisters of Charity). 

Bedford Heights Baptist Church, Bergen Heights, corner of Rogers 
Avenue. 

St. Giles Home (for Cripples), 410 Clinton Street. 

Central Baptist Church, Marcy Avenue, corner of South Fifth Street. 

Faith Home for Incurables, Park Place, corner of Classon Avenue. 

Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue, corner 
of McDonough Street. 

Puritan Congregational Church, Lafayette Avenue, corner of Marcy 
Avenue. 

Home for Consumptives, Kingston Avenue, corner of Butler Street. 

Brooklyn Hospital, Raymond Street, near De Kalb Avenue. 

First Baptist Church in East New York, Hendrix Street, near Fulton 
Street. 

Brooklyn Throat Hospital, Bedford Avenue, corner of South Third 
Street. 

Sixth Avenue Church (Baptist), Sixth Avenue, corner of Lincoln Place. 

Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home and Hospital, Forty-sixth 
Street, corner of Fourth Avenue. 

Bushwick Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Bushwick Avenue, 
corner of Madison Street. 

Roman Catholic Charitable Hospital, Bushwick Avenue, near Maujer 
Street. 

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenpoint, Manhattan Avenue, 
near Java Street. 

Knickerbocker Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Knickerbocker 
Avenue, corner of Ralph Street. 

German Hospital, St. Nicholas Avenue and Stanhope Street. 

Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Powers Street, near Lorimer Street. 

Lutherisches Hospital, New York Avenue, corner of Powell Street. 

Memorial Presbyterian Church, Seventh Avenue, corner of St. John's 
Place. 

Tompkins Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Tompkins Avenue, 
corner of Willoughby Avenue. 

Bushwick Hospital, 1038 Greene Avenue. 

Eye and Ear Hospital, 04 Livingston Street. 

Pennsylvania Avenue Congregational Church, Pennsylvania, near 
Liberty Avenue. 

Central Throat Hospital and Polyclinic Dispensary, Broadway and 
Howard Avenue. 



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Warren Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Warren Street, near 
Smith Street. 

Williams Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Williams Avenue, 
near Atlantic Avenue. 

St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, Adelphi Street, near DeKalb 
Avenue. 

Second Presbyterian Church, Clinton Street, near Remsen Street. 

Second Unitarian Church, corner of Congress Street. 

Church of Reconciliation (Universalist), North Henry Street, near Nassau 
Avenue. 

Greene Avenue Baptist Church, Greene Avenue, near Lewis Avenue. 

Lewis Avenue Congregational Church, Lewis Avenue, corner of 
Madison Avenue. 

Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Fourth Avenue, corner 
of Forty-seventh Street. 

St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, St. James Place, corner of 
Lafayette Avenue. 

Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church, Eighth Avenue, corner of 
Tenth Street. 

Second Baptist Church, Ainslie, near Graham Avenue. 

New England Baptist Church, South Ninth Street, near Driggs Avenue. 

Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Fifth Street, near Driggs Avenue. 

Cumberland Street Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Street, near 
Myrtle Avenue. 

Third Unitarian Church, Gates Avenue, corner of Irving Place. 

Kingston Avenue Hospital, Kingston Avenue and Fennimore Street. 

Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Clinton Avenue, corner of 
Lafayette Avenue. 

Long Island Throat and Lung Hospital, 55 Willoughby Street. 

Lee Avenue Congregational Church, Lee Avenue, corner of Hooper 
Street. 

Long Island College Hospital, Henry Street, near Pacific Street. 

St. Peter's Hospital, Henry Street, corner of Congress Street. 

Bethesda Congregational Church, Ralph Avenue, corner of Chauncey 
Street. 

St. John's Hospital, Atlantic Avenue, corner of Albany Avenue. 

Central Congregational Church, Hancock Street, near Franklin Avenue. 

Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, Classon Avenue. 

Greenwood Baptist Church, Fourth Avenue, corner of Fifteenth Street. 

Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Seventh Avenue, corner of Sixth Street. 

Ocean Hill Baptist Church, Rockaway Avenue, corner of Somers Street. 




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St. Catharine's Hospital (Roman Catholic), Bushwick Avenue, near 
Maujer Street. 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Bond, near Fulton Street, was 
founded in 1824. 

Brooklyn Music Half, Broadway and Alabama Avenue. 

Empire Theatre, Broadway and Bedford Avenue. 

Qayety Theatre, Broadway and Troop Avenue. 

Historical Hall, corner Pierrepont and Clinton streets. 

Long Island Historical Society, Pierrepont and Clinton streets. 

Academy of Music, 176 Montague Street. 

Brooklyn Library, 107 Montague Street. 

Brooklyn Art Association, 174 Montague Street. 

Columbia Theatre, Washington and Tillary streets. 

Bijou Theatre, Smith and Livingston streets. 

Brooklyn E. D. School Library, 74 South Third Street, corner Driggs 
Avenue. 

Pratt Institute, 215 Ryerson Street. 

Church of the Pilgrims (Congregational), corner Henry and Remsen streets. 

Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, Cumberland 
Street. 

City Park, Canton and Navy streets, Park and Flushing avenues, contains 
seven and one half acres. 

Beecher Memorial Church (Congregational), Herkimer Street, near Rock- 
away Street. 

Kings County Hospital, Clarkson Street. 

A/1 Souls' Church, South Ninth Street, near Bedford Avenue. 

Highland Park, Force Tube and Sunnyside avenues, has an area of 
twenty-six acres. 

Sunset Park, Forty-first to Forty-third streets, Fifth to Seventh avenues, 
contains fourteen and one fourth acres. 

Red Hook Park, Richards, D wight, Verona, and Williams streets, contains 
six acres. 

Saratoga Square, Saratoga and Howard avenues, Halsey and Macon 
streets, contains four acres. 

Irving Square, Hamburg and Knickerbocker avenues, Halsey and Weir- 
field streets, contains three and one half acres. 

Bushwick Park, Knickerbocker and Irving avenues, Starr and Suydam 
streets. 

United States Naval Hospital, Flushing Avenue, off Ryerson Street. 

East Side Lands, Washington Avenue, Eastern Parkway, and Flatbush 
Avenue, contains fifty acres. 



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Parade Ground Coney Island, Caton and Ocean avenues and Parade 
Place, contains forty acres. 

Grant Statue, Grant Square, stands in front of the Union League club- 
house. It is of heroic size, in bronze, and was unveiled in April, 1895. 

Concourse Park, East and West Fifth streets, Sea Breeze Avenue, and the 
Ocean, contains seventy acres. 

Dyke's Beach, Seventh Avenue, New York Bay, Eighth Street, Cropsey 
and Fourteenth avenues, contains one hundred and forty-four acres. 

Bensonhurst Beach, Bay Parkway, Gravesend Bay, Twenty-first and 
Cropsey Avenues, contains eight acres. 

Bay Parkway, Ocean Parkway to Bensonhurst Beach, is three miles 
long. 

Lincoln Terrace, Eastern Parkway, Buffalo Avenue, President Street, and 
Rochester Avenue, contains twelve acres. 

Canarsie Beach, Rockaway Parkway and Jamaica Bay, has an area of 
forty acres. 

New Lots Playground, Sackman Street, Newport, Christopher, and River- 
dale avenues, contains three acres. 

Cooper Park, Maspeth and Morgan avenues, Sharon and Guilford Streets, 
contains seventeen acres. 

Linton Park, Bradford Street, Blake, Dumont, and Miller avenues, contains 
three acres. 

Brooklyn Forest, between Jamaica Avenue and Union Turnpike, Eldert 
Lane and Washington Street, town of Jamaica. 

Fort Hamilton Park, Fort Hamilton and Shore Road, contains seven 
acres. 

Bay Ridge Parkway, Fort Hamilton Avenue to Fort Hamilton, is three 
miles in length. 

Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, established in 1840, contains 474 acres. 
It is laid out on the landscape plan, and is one of the notable cemeteries of the 
country. It is reached by the elevated railroad or by Hamilton Ferry. Many 
thousands of costly monuments to the dead adorn the grounds. S. F. B. Morse, 
James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, and other famous men and women are 
buried here. 

Calvary Cemetery, Newtown, Long Island, was established in 1848. 
There are about two hundred acres of land in the grounds, which belong to St. 
Patrick's Cathedral, New York. 

The Lutheran Cemetery, Newtown, Long Island, has four hundred acres 
of land. 

Evergreen Cemetery, Newtown, Long Island, established in 1851, has 
four hundred acres of land. 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 89 

Cypress Hills Cemetery, Newtown, Long Island, has four hundred acres 
of land. A large lot is devoted to the graves of soldiers killed during the 
Rebellion. 



STATEN ISLAND. 



The land is broken by hills, affording fine views of the harbor and interior. 

Tottenvllle is the most southern town on the island. Richmond was 
formerly the county town. Arthur Kill and the sound separate the island from 
New Jersey. 

Stapleton is the quarantine station, and St. George, Tompkinsville, 
Clifton and Gifford's are on the east side of the island. South Beach is a 
summer resort and Midland Beach is a new resort. 

Other towns and villages are West New Brighton, Port Richmond, 
Erastina, Chelsea, Travisville, Rossville, Eltingville, Prince's Bay, 
Huguenot, and Red Bank. 

Prohibition Park (Westerleigh), a village recently built by Dr. I. K. Funk 
and others. 

Sailors' Snug Harbor, West New Brighton, on the north shore of the 
island. Here is the home for aged and infirm sailors. The grounds have an 
area of one hundred and eighty-five acres. It was founded by Captain Richard 
Randall. The large buildings are occupied by seven hundred and fifty pen- 
sioners. The remains of the founder rest under a monument on the grounds, 
and a bronze statue of Captain Randall stands in a prominent section of the 
ground. 

The Huguenot Graveyard. The Vanderbilt tomb, a large marble struc- 
ture, is in this ground. 



THE HARBOR OF NEW YORK 

Comprises the lower bay, the upper bay, the East River, and the southern 
part of the North or Hudson River, and may be entered from the Atlantic Ocean 
either from the northeast by way of Long Island Sound, or from the east and 
south by way of the channels at Sandy Hook. The latter is the channel used 
by most of the ocean vessels. 

The North River is nearly a mile wide, and deep enough for the largest 
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The East River is about half a mile wide, but is as deep as North 
River. 

The northeastern entrance to the harbor from Long Island Sound is 
through Hell Gate to the East River. 

Pier Water Front of Manhattan Island are the North River, East River, 
and Harlem River, giving twenty-five miles of excellent wharf front for large 
vessels. The North River on the western front is the original name given to it 
by the Dutch settlers, and it is twenty miles long and one mile wide. East 
River is twenty miles long, connecting New York harbor near the Battery with 
Long Island Sound at Willett's Point. Harlem River is a tributary of the East 
River, and is seven miles long. 

Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, on Bedloe's Island, one and three quarters 
miles southwest of the Battery. This enormous statue of hammered copper is 
151 feet high, and stands on a pedestal 155 feet high, standing within the walls 
of Fort Wood. 

■ Fort Wood, on Bedloe's Island, was completed in 1841. 
*■ Governor's Island, near the Battery, is the headquarters of the Military 
Department of the East. It has an area of sixty-five acres. Fort Columbus 
is the principal work on the island. On the point is Castle William, facing 
the Battery, built 1808-1812. On the island are magazines, hospitals, and an 
arsenal. 

Robins Reef Lighthouse, a low brown tower, near the Staten Island 
shore. 

Fort Hamilton, a military reservation of ninety-six acres, Gravesend Bay, 
Brooklyn. A large fort, casemated and heavily armed ; also strong shore 
batteries. The guns command the Narrows and the approach from the bay. 

The Narrows, one mile wide, is the water connection between the harbor 
and lower bay. 

Fort Wadsworth, on the high point at the Narrows, is a military reserva- 
tion of one hundred acres. This fort, with Fort Hamilton, commands the 
entrance to the harbor. 

Fort Lafayette, located between Fort Hamilton and the water front. Its 
construction was begun in 1812 and was named in 1822 Fort Lafayette. It is 
constructed of brick, with high walls. 

Willett's Point, near Whitestone, fortified in 1862 by the government. 

Fort Totten, near Whitestone. 

Fort Schuyler, Throgg's Neck, East River. 

Fort Slocum, David's Island. 

Quarantine Station, port of New York. At Swinburne Island is located 
the hospital for contagious diseases. At Hoffman's Island all passengers arriv- 
ing in infected vessels are detained for some time to guard the public health. 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 93 

Sandy Hook is the long neck of land on the New Jersey shore. Sandy- 
Hook and Scotland lightships are anchored off Sandy Hook. Navesink High- 
lands, the high shore between Navesink River and New York Bay, have two 
lighthouses. 

Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, very heavily armed fortifications. 

BJackweWs Island, in East River, contains one hundred and twenty acres 
and was purchased by the city in 1828. Here are located the almshouse, peni- 
tentiary, charity hospital, workhouse, asylum for the insane, and other public 
institutions. 

Randall's Island, near the union of the East River and Harlem River, 
contains one hundred acres. The House of Refuge was erected here in 1854. 

Coney Island was formerly part of the town of Gravesend. It was annexed 
to Brooklyn some years ago. Here are Brighton and Manhattan beaches. 



FERRIES, MANHATTAN BOROUGH. 



To Astoria, from foot of East Ninety-second Street. 

To Bedloe's Island (Liberty Island), from battery. 

To BlackweWs Island, from foot of Twenty-sixth Street, Fifty-second 
Street, and One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, East River. 

To Brooklyn Borough. — From foot of Catharine Street to Main Street, 
Brooklyn Borough. From foot of East Tenth Street and foot of East Twenty- 
third Street to Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of East 
Twenty-third Street to Broadway, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of East 
Houston Street to Grand Street, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of Fulton Street 
to Fulton Street, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of Grand Street to Grand Street 
and Broadway, Brooklyn Borough. 

To Jersey City. — From foot of Chambers and West Twenty-third streets 
to Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City (Erie, Northern of New Jersey, and New Jersey 
& New York Railroad). From foot of Cortlandt, Desbrosses, and West 
Twenty-third streets to Montgomery Street, Jersey City (Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, Lehigh Valley Railroad, and New York, Susquehanna & Western Rail- 
road). From foot of Liberty and Whitehall streets to Communipaw, Jersey City 
(Central Railroad of New Jersey). Pennsylvania annex from foot of Fulton 
Street, Brooklyn Borough, to Jersey City, connecting with Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, Lehigh Valley Railroad, and New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. 
From foot of Roosevelt Street to Broadway, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of 
Wall Street to Montague Street, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of Whitehall 
Street to Atlantic and Hamilton avenues, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of 



94 GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 

Whitehall Street to Thirty-ninth Street, Brooklyn Borough. From foot of West 
Thirteenth Street to Bay Street, Jersey City. 

To College Point (Queens Borough), from foot of East Ninety-ninth Street- 

To Fort Lee, from foot of West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street. 

To Governor's Island, from foot of Whitehall Street. 

To Hart's Island, from foot of One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, East 
River. 

To Hoboken, from foot of Barclay and Christopher streets, to Newark and 
Ferry streets, Hoboken. From foot of West Fourteenth Street to Fourteenth 
Street, Hoboken. 

To North Brother Island, from foot of East One Hundred and Thirty- 
eighth Street. 

To Queens Borough (Long Island City), from foot of East Thirty-fourth 
Street and James Slip to Borden Avenue, Long Island City (Long Island Railroad). 

To Randall's Island, from foot of Twenty-sixth and East One Hundred 
and Twentieth streets. 

To Richmond Borough (Staten Island), from foot of Whitehall Street to 
St. George, Staten Island (Staten Island and Rapid Transit Railroad and trolley 
lines). 

To Ward's Island, from foot of East One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. 

To Weehawken, from foot of Franklin and West Forty-second streets to 
West Shore Railroad depot. From foot of West Forty-second Street to Old 
Slip, Weehawken. 



BRIDGES ACROSS THE HARLEM RIVER. 



Second Avenue, Suburban Transit Railroad. 

Third Avenue, Public Bridge. 

Park Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty=third Street, New York 
Central & Hudson River Railroad Bridge. 

Madison Avenue, Public Bridge to One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street. 

Macomb's Dam, Public Bridge. 

West One Hundred and Seventy=third Street, High Bridge Aqueduct. 

Eighth Avenue, New York & Putnam Railroad Bridge. 

Dyckman Street, Foot Bridge. 

West Two Hundred and Twenty= fourth Street, Farmers' Bridge. 

Spuyten Duyvil Creek, King's Bridge. 

Junction with Hudson River, Ship Canal Bridge. 

Willis Avenue, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street and First Avenue to 
One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Street and Willis Avenue. 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 95 

PIERS IN MANHATTAN BOROUGH. 



North River. New No. 1 and Old No. 1, Battery Place. Old Nos. 2 and 
3, Battery Place and Morris Street. Old No. 4, Morris Street. Old Nos. 5, 6 
and 7, Morris and Rector streets. Old No. 8, Rector Street. Old Nos. 9 and 10, 
Rector and Carlisle streets. Old No. 11, Carlisle Street. Old No. 12, Albany 
Street. Old No. 13, Albany and Cedar streets. New No. 13, Cortlandt and Dey 
streets. Old No. 14, Cedar Street. New No. 14, Fulton Street. Old No. 15, 
Liberty Street. New No. 15, between Vesey and Barclay streets. Old No. 16, 
Liberty and Cortlandt streets. Old No. 17, Cortlandt Street. New No. 18, 
Murray Street. New No. 19, Warren Street. New No. 20, Chambers Street. 
New No. 21, Duane Street. New No. 22, Jay Street. New No. 23, Harrison 
Street. New No. 24, Franklin Street. New No. 25, North Moore Street. New 
No. 26, Beach Street. Old No. 26, Barclay and Park Place. Old No. 27, Park 
Place. New No. 27, Hubert Street. New No. 28, Laight Street. New No. 29, 
Vestry Street. New No. 30, Vestry Street. New No. 31, Watts Street. New 
No. 32, Canal Street. New No. 34, Canal Street. New No. 35, Spring Street. 
New No. 36, Spring and Charlton streets. New No. 37, Charlton Street. New 
No. 38, King Street. New No. 39, West Houston Street. New No. 40, Clarkson 
Street. New No. 41, Leroy Street. Old No. 42, Canal Street. New No. 42, 
Morton Street. New No. 43, Barrow Street. New No. 44, Christopher Street. 
New Nos. 45, 46 and 47, West Tenth Street. New No. 48, West Eleventh Street. 
New pier foot of Bank Street. New pier foot of Bethune Street. New pier foot 
of Jane Street. New pier foot of Gansevoort Street. New pier foot of West 
Nineteenth Street. New pier foot of West Twenty-first Street. New pier foot 
of West Twenty-second Street. New No. 53, West Twenty-third Street. Old 
No. 54, Perry Street. New No. 54, West Twenty-fourth Street. New No. 55, 
West Twenty-fifth Street. New No. 56, West Twenty-sixth Street. Old No. 
56£, Gansevoort and Bloomfield streets. New No. 57, West Twenty-seventh 
Street. Old No. 58, Bloomfield Street. New No. 58, West Twenty-eighth 
Street. Old No. 59, Little West Twelfth Street. New No. 59, West Twenty- 
ninth Street. New No. 60, West Thirtieth Street. New No. 61, West Thirty- 
first Street. New No. 62, West Thirty-second Street. New No. 63, West 
Thirty-third Street. 

East River. Nos. 3 and 4, Moore and Broad Streets. No. 5, Broad Street 
and Coenties Slip. Nos. 6, 7 and 8, Coenties Slip. Nos. 9 and 10, Coenties and 
Old Slips. Nos. 11 and 12, Old Slip. No. 13, Old Slip. No. 13, Old Slip, near 
Wall Street. No. 14, Jones Lane. Nos. 15 and 16, Wall Street. No. 17, Pine 
Street. No. 18 Maiden Lane. No. 19, Fletcher Street. Nos. 20 and 21, Burling 
Slip. No. 22, Fulton Street. No. 23, Beekman Street. No. 24, Beekman Street 



96 GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 

and Peck Slip. Nos. 25 and 26, Peck Slip. No. 27, Dover Street. No. 28, Dover 
and Roosevelt streets. No. 29, Roosevelt Street. New No. 29, Market Street. 
No. 30, Roosevelt Street and James Slip. No. 31, James Slip. Old No. 32, James 
Slip. New No. 32, Pike Street. New No. 33, Oliver Street. Old Nos. 34 and 35, 
Catharine Street. Old No. 36, Catharine and Market streets. New No. 36, Jeffer- 
son Street. No. 38, Market Street. No. 39, Market and Pike streets. No. 40, 
Pike Street. No. 42, Pike and Rutgers streets. Nos. 43 and 44, Rutgers Street. 
No. 45, Rutgers and Jefferson streets. No. 46, Jefferson Street. No. 47, Jefferson 
and Clinton streets. No. 48, Clinton Street. No. 49, Clinton and Montgomery 
streets. No. 50, Montgomery Street. Nos. 51 and 52, Gouverneur Street. No. 
53, Jackson Street. No. 54, Corlears Street. No. 55, Cherry Street. Nos. 56 
and 57, Broome Street. Nos. 58 and 59, Delancey Street. No. 60, Rivington 
Street. No. 61, Rivington and Stanton Streets. No. 62, Stanton Street. 



COAST STEAMSHIPS. 



Atlas Steamship Company, Pier 55 (new), foot of West Twenty-fifth 
Street (West Indies and Mosquito Coast). 

Clyde Steamship Company, Pier 29, East River, foot of Roosevelt 
Street (Charleston and Jacksonville). 

Savannah Line, Pier 35, North River, foot of Spring Street (Savannah). 

Old Dominion Steamship Company, Pier 26 (new), North River, foot 
of Beach Street (Norfolk, Richmond, and other ports). 

Morgan Line (Southern Pacific Road), Pier 25, North River, foot of North 
Moore Street (New Orleans). 

Cromwell Line, Pier 9, North River, foot of Rector Street (New Orleans). 

Maine Steamship Company, Pier 38, East River (Portland). 

Royal Dutch West Indies Mail Line, Pier foot of Joralemon Street, 
Brooklyn (Port au Prince, Curacao, and other ports). 

Porto Rico Steamship Company, Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn (ports in 
Porto Rico). 

Mallory Line, Pier 20, East River, Burling Slip (Galveston, Key West, 
Fernandina, and Brunswick). 

Manhattan Steamship Company, Pier 6, North River (ports in Maine 
and Provinces). 

Compania Transatlantica Espanola, Pier 10, East River, foot of Old Slip 
(Havana, Santiago, Progreso, Vera Cruz, and other ports). 

New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, Piers 16 and 17, East 
River, foot of Wall Street (Ports in Cuba, Mexico and Nassau, N. V.). 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 97 

Quebec Steamship Company, Pier 47 (new), North River, foot of West 
Tenth Street (Bermuda, Porto Rico, and Windward Islands). 

Panama Railroad Steamship Line, Pier 57, North River, foot of West 
Twenty-seventh Street (California, China, and Japan, via Isthmus of Panama). 

Red D Lines, Roberts Stores, Brooklyn (Porto Rico, Curacao, West Indies, 
La Guayra, and other ports). 



TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS. 



Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, Pier 42 (new), North River, foot 
of Morton Street (French Line to Havre). 

Cunard Line, Pier 40, North River, foot of Clarkson Street (Liverpool via 
Queenstown). 

Hamburg=American Packet Company, Pier foot of First and Newark 
streets, Hoboken, N. J. (Hamburg via Southampton). 

American Line, Pier 14 (new), North River, foot of Fulton Street (South- 
ampton). 

Allan=State Line, Pier foot of West Twenty-first Street, North River 
(Glasgow and Londonderry). 

Anchor Line, Pier 54 (new), North River, foot of West Twenty-fourth 
Street (Glasgow via Moville and Londonderry). 

Atlantic Transport Line, Pier 39 (new), North River (New York and 
London). 

Red Star Line, Pier 14 (new), North River, foot of Fulton Street (Antwerp). 

Scandinavian American Line, Pier foot of Fourth Street, Hoboken 
(Christiania, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg). 

White Star Line, Pier 45 (new), North River, foot of West Tenth Street 
(Liverpool via Queenstown). 

Wilson Line, Pier foot of Montague Street, Brooklyn (London and Hull). 

Holland^ American Line, Pier Fifth Street, Hoboken (Rotterdam and 
Amsterdam via Boulogne-sur-Mer). 

North German Lloyd Line, Pier foot of Second Street, Hoboken 
(Bremen via Southampton, and Genoa via Gibraltar). 

Phoenix Line, Pier foot of Sixth Street, Hoboken (Antwerp). 

Prince Line, Atlantic Pier, Brooklyn (St. Michael, Azores, Naples, and 
Genoa). 



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99 



GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK. 



Directors-General — Dutch. 



1623, Adriaen Joris. 

1624, Cornells Jacobsen May. 

1625, William Verhulst. 
1626-33, Peter Minuit. 
1632, The Council. 
1633-38, W outer van Twiller. 
1638-47, William Kieft. 



1647-64, Petrus Stuyvesant. 

1664-73, Colonial Governors (Eng- 
lish). 

1673, Cornells Evertse, Jr., Jacob 
Benckes and a court of war. 

1673-74, Anthony Colve. 



Colonial Governors. 



1664-68, Richard Nicols. 1731, 

1667-73, Francis Lovelace. 1732, 

1673, July 30 — 1674, Oct. 31, Dutch 1737, 

regime re-established. 1743, 

1674, Edmund Andros. 1753, 
1681, Antony Brockholst. 1753, 
1683, Thomas Dongan. 1755, 

1688, Francis Nicholson (Lieut.-Gov.). 1757, 

1689, Jacob Leisler (acting). 1760, 
1691, Henry Sloughter. 1761, 

1691, Richard Ingolsby (Lieut.-Gov.). 1762, 

1692, Benjamin Fletcher. 

1698, Earl of Bellamont. 1763, 

1701, John Nanfan (Lieut.-Gov.). 1769, 

1702, Lord Cornbury. 

1708, Lord Lovelace. 1770, 

1709, Richard Ingolsby (Lieut.-Gov.). 1771, 

1710, Robert Hunter. 1773, 

1719, Peter Schuyler (acting). 

1720, William Burnet. 1775, 
1728, John Montgomery. 



Rip van Dam (acting). 

William Cosby. 

George Clarke. 

George Clinton. 

Danvers Osborne. 

James Delancey (Lieut.-Gov.). 

Sir Charles Hardy. 

James Delancey (Lieut.-Gov.). 

Cadwallader Colden (acting). 

Robert Moncton. 

Cadwallader Colden (Lieut.- 
Gov.). 

Sir Henry Moore. 

Cadwallader Colden (Lieut.- 
Gov.). 

Earl of Dunmore. 

William Tryon. 

Cadwallader Colden (Lieut.- 
Gov.). 

William Tryon. 



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101 



Presidents Provincial Congress and Committee of Safety, 



1775, April 20, Philip Livingston. 1776, 

1775, May 23, Peter V. B. Livingston. 1776, 

1775, Aug. 28, Nathaniel WoodhulL/r* 1776, 

tern. 

1775, Nov. 2, Abraham Yates, Jr., pro tern. 1776, 

1775, Dec. 6, Nathaniel Woodhull. 1776, 

1775, Dec. 16, John Haring,/™ tern. 1777, 

1776, Feb. 12, Nathaniel Woodhull. 1777, 
1776, May 18, Nathaniel Woodhull. 1777, 



June 19, John Haring,/rtf tem. 
July 9, Nathaniel Woodhull. 
Aug. 10, Abraham Yates, Jr., 
pro tem. 
Aug. 28, Abraham Yates, Jr. 
Sept. 26, Peter R. Livingston. 
March 6, Abraham Ten Broeck. 
April 18, Leonard Gansevoort. 
May 14, Pierre Van Cortlandt. 



Governors of the State* 



1777-95, George Clinton. 1853- 

1795-1801, John Jay. 1855- 

1801-04, George Clinton. 1857- 

1804-07, Morgan Lewis. 1859- 

1807-17, Daniel D. Tompkins. 1863- 

1817, John Taylor (acting). 1865- 

1817-23, De Witt Clinton. 1869- 

1823-25, Joseph C. Yates. 1873- 

1825-28, De Witt Clinton. 1875- 

1828-29, Nathaniel Pitcher (acting). 1877- 

1829, Martin Van Buren. 1880- 

1829-33, Enos T. Throop. 1883- 

1833-39, William L. Marcy. 1885- 

1839-43, William H. Seward. 1886- 

1843-45, William C. Bouck. 1892- 

1845-47, Silas Wright. 1895- 

1847-49, John Young. 1897- 

1849-51, Hamilton Fish. 1899- 
1851-53, Washington Hunt. 



-55, Horatio Seymour. 
■57, Myron H. Clark. 
59, John A. King. 
-63, Edwin D. Morgan. 
65, Horatio Seymour. 
69, Reuben E. Fenton. 
73, John T. Hoffman. 
75, John Adams Dix. 
-77, Samuel J. Tilden. 
80, Lucius Robinson. 
83, Alonzo B. Cornell. 

85, Grover Cleveland. 

86, David B. Hill (acting). 
92, David B. Hill. 

95, Roswell P. Flower. 

96, Levi P. Morton. 
98, Frank S. Black. 
1900, Theodore Roosevelt. 



102 



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MAYORS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Before the Revolution, the mayor was appointed by the Provincial Governor 
of New York ; from 1784 to 1820, he was appointed by the Appointing Board 
of the State of New York, the Governor being the head of the Board. From 
1820 to 1830, when the charter was amended, the mayor was appointed by the 
Common Council, 





Mayors. 


Term. 




Mayors. 


Term. 


1. 


Thomas Willett, 


1665 


32. 


Jacobus van Cortlandt, 


1719-20 


2. 


Thomas Delavall, 


1666 


33. 


Robert Walters, 


1720-25 


3. 


Thomas Willett, 


1667 


34. 


Johannes Jansen, 


1725-26 


4. 


Cornells Steenwyck, 


1668-70 


35. 


Robert Lurting, 


1726-35 


5. 


Thomas Delavall, 


1671 


36. 


Paul Richard, 


1735-39 


6. 


Matthias Nicolls, 


1672 


37. 


John Cruger, Sr., 


1739-44 


7. 


John Lawrence, 


1673 


38. 


Stephen Bayard, 


1744-47 


8. 


William Dervall, 


1675 


39. 


Edward Holland, 


1747-57 


9. 


Nicholas de Meyer, 


1676 


40. 


John Cruger, Jr., 


1757-66 


10. 


S. van Cortlandt, 


1677 


41. 


Whitehead Hicks, 


1766-76 


11. 


Thomas Delavall, 


1678 


42. 


David Matthews, Tory, 


1776-84 


12. 


Francis Rombouts, 


1679 


43. 


James Duane, 


1784-89 


13. 


William Dyre, 


1680-81 


44. 


Richard Varick, 


1789-1801 


14. 


Cornells Steenwyck, 


1682-83 


45. 


Edward Livingston, 


1801-03 


15. 


Gabriel Minville, 


1684 


46. 


De Witt Clinton, 


1803-07 


16. 


Nicholas Bayard, 


1685 


47. 


Marinus Willett, 


1807-08 


17. 


S. van Cortlandt, 


1686-87 


48. 


DeWitt Clinton, 


1808-10 


18. 


Peter Delanoy, 


1689-90 


49. 


Jacob Radcliff, 


1810-11 


19. 


John Lawrence, 


1691 


50. 


De Witt Clinton, 


1811-15 


20. 


Abraham de Peyster, 


1692-95 


51. 


John Ferguson, 


1815 


21. 


William Merritt, 


1695-98 


52. 


Jacob Radcliff, 


1815-18 


22. 


Johannes de Peyster, 


1698-99 


53. 


Cadwallader D. Colden, 


1818-21 


23. 


David Provost, 


1699-1700 


54. 


Stephen Allen, 


1821-24 


24. 


Isaac de Riemer, 


1700-01 


55. 


William Paulding, 


1825-26 


25. 


Thomas Noell, 


1701-02 


56. 


Philip Hone, 


1826-27 


26. 


Philip French, 


1702-03 


57. 


William Paulding, 


1827-29 


27. 


William Pear tree, 


1703-07 


58. 


Walter Bowne, 


1829-33 


28. 


Ebenezer Wilson, 


1707-10 


59. 


Gideon Lee, 


1833-34 


29. 


Jacobus van Cortlandt, 


1710-11 


60. 


Cornelius W. Lawrence 


, 1834-37 


30. 


Caleb Heathcote, 


1711-14 


61. 


Aaron Clark, 


1837-39 


31. 


John Johnson, 


1714-19 


62. 


Isaac L. Varian, 


1839-41 



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103 



MAYORS OF THE 

Mayors. 

63. Robert H. Morris, 

64. James Harper, 

65. Wm. F. Havemeyer, 

66. Andrew H. Mickle, 

67. William V. Brady, 

68. Wm. F. Havemeyer, 

69. Caleb S. Woodhull, 

70. Ambrose C. Kingsland, 

71. Jacob A. Westervelt, 

72. Fernando Wood, 

73. Daniel F. Tiemann, 

74. Fernando Wood, 

75. George Opdyke, 

76. C. Godfrey Gunther, 

77. John T. Hoffman, 



CITY 


OF NEW YORK — Continued. 


Term. 




Mayors. 


Term. 


1841-44 


78. 


T. Coman (acting mayor), 1868 


1844-45 


79. 


A. Oakey Hall, 


1869-72 


1845-46 


80. 


Wm. F. Havemeyer, 


1873-74 


1846-47 


81. 


S. B. H. Vance (acting), 


, 1874 


1847-48 


82. 


William H. Wickham, 


1875-76 


1848-49 


83. 


Smith Ely, 


1877-78 


1849-51 


84. 


Edward Cooper, 


1879-80 


1851-53 


85. 


William R. Grace, 


1881-82 


1853-55 


86. 


Franklin Edson, 


1883-84 


1855-58 


87. 


William R. Grace, 


1885-86 


1858-60 


88. 


Abram S. Hewitt, 


1887-88 


1860-62 


89. 


Hugh J. Grant, 


1889-92 


1862-64 


90. 


Thomas F. Gilroy, 


1893-94 


1864-66 


91. 


William L. Strong, 


1895-97 


1866-68 


92. 


Robert A. Van Wyck, 


1898-1901 



NEW JERSEY SHORE. 



Jersey City, on the opposite shore, southwest from Manhattan Borough, 
has a population of 155,000. On the water front are situated the station of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad and the ferry landings for the ferries from New York. 
The Union Station for the electric-car lines is at the foot of Montgomery Street. 

Hoboken is north of Jersey City and has a population of 45,000. The 
piers of a number of transatlantic steamer lines are on the water front. The 
station of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and branches and 
the ferries from New York are at this point. The Stevens Institute is on the 
banks of the river, and has ample grounds. 

Weehawken, just north of Hoboken, is the terminus of the New York, 
West Shore & Buffalo and the Ontario & Western railroads. Here was fought 
the duel between General Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which resulted 
in the death of Hamilton. The city is connected with New York and Brooklyn 
by ferries. 

Ocean Grove. In this shore town are held the camp meetings of the 
Methodist Church societies. The principal buildings are the Auditorium, Taber- 
nacle, and the Young People's Temple. The Auditorium, erected by the Metho- 
dist Church for meetings of the societies, has a seating capacity of 9,500. The 
town has a number of fine hotels. 



104 GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 

Asbltry Park, near Ocean Grove, is a popular summer resort. The town 
has a good library and an opera house. There are a number of good hotels. 

Long Branch, a shore summer resort, is reached by steamers of the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey and by rail. 



HUDSON RIVER. 



The Hudson River is navigable for steamers to Troy, but is closed in 
winter by ice. 

Steamers run between New York and landings on the river as follows: 
Albany Day Line, landing Desbrosses Street; Albany People's Line (night), 
landing Canal Street ; Catskill (Catskill Railroad), landing Christopher Street ; 
Kingston (Ulster & Delaware Railroad), landing West Tenth Street; Troy Citi- 
zens' (night), West Tenth Street ; Newburgh (Day Line), Desbrosses Street ; New- 
burgh (Central Hudson Line), Franklin, West Tenth Street; Newburgh (Mary 
Powell), Desbrosses Street; Peekskill, West Tenth Street; West Point (Day 
Line), Desbrosses Street ; West Point (Mary Powell), Desbrosses Street. 

Many interesting historical places will be found in a trip up the river. 
Hoboken is soon passed, with Bergen Hill in the background, and Weehawken, 
Washington Heights, and Fort Lee and the Palisades. The Palisades, on the 
western side of the river, extend twenty miles and the great wall of rock is 
from 350 to 550 feet in height 

Yonkers, a city of 40,000 inhabitants, is connected with New York by rail- 
road and steamboats. 

Dobbs Ferry was the scene of many important acts of the Revolution. 

Irvington is a short distance above Dobbs Ferry, and is reached by railroad 
and steamboat. 

Sunnyside, just north of Irvington, was the home of Washington Irving. 

Tarrytown, a beautiful village and famous for stirring scenes during the 
Revolution. Major Andre of the British army was captured here and executed 
as a spy. 

Nyack, a village of some importance, is connected by railroad and steam- 
boats with New York. 

Sing Sing. Here is located the State Prison, which was established in 
1826. The town has some 12,000 inhabitants, with many fine buildings. 

Stony Point. Here took place one of the boldest and most successful 
military exploits of the Revolution — the storming of the works by General 
Wayne. 



GUIDE TO GREATER NEW YORK. 105 

Peekskill has a population of about 12,000 and was also one ot the towns 
along the river identified with the history of the Revolution. Major General 
Seth Pomeroy and Paulding, one of the captors of Major Andre, are buried here. 

West Point. Here is located the United States Military Academy, the 
famous school for the education of officers for the army, which was established in 
1704. Numerous buildings occupy the spacious grounds. Besides the cadets, 
who number from 300 to 325, a large staff of instructors reside here. Many 
interesting relics of the revolutionary war, of 1812, 1848, and 1861-65, are 
treasured in the buildings and grounds. 

The library contains about 35,000 volumes devoted to military affairs. The 
cemetery is a short distance from the academy, and here are buried Lieutenant- 
General Winfieid Scott, Brigadier-General Anderson, who commanded Fort 
Sumter in 1861, Brigadier-General Custer, Major-General Sykes, and General 
Quincy A. Gilmore. Old Fort Putnam is on Mount Independence, 500 feet 
above the river level. 

Newburgh was very prominent in the Revolution, and in 1782-83 Wash- 
ington had his headquarters here in a house now standing. The city has a 
population of about 30,000. 

Pough keeps ie. Here is located Vassar College, a noted institution of 
learning for girls. 

Kingston has a population of about 31,000. The British burned the town 
October 16, 1777. 

The Catskill Mountains are reached by railroad by several routes. 
These hills cover a large territory which is unsurpassed in scenery, and many 
beautiful estates have been laid out and high-cost residences built by residents of 
New York for summer homes. 

Albany, the capital of the State of New York, is 145 miles from the city 
of New York, and has a population of about 125,000. The old capitol was com- 
pleted in 1808, and in 1 869 the present capitol was begun, and has cost more than 
$20,000,000. The State library contains 185,000 volumes. 



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Abbey's Theatre 45 

Academy of Music (New York) 35 

Academy of Music (Brooklyn) 77 

Academy of the Sacred Heart 71 

Ahawath Chesed (Temple) 69 

Albany 105 

All Angels' Church 67 

All Souls' Church 41, 61 

All Souls' Church (Brooklyn) 85 

American Artists, Society of 55 

American Bible Society 34 

American Foreign Christian Union 38 

American Geographical Society 44 

American Institute 45 

American Museum of Natural History. . .59, 65 

American Seaman's Friend Society 15 

American Society of Civil Engineers 55 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 44 

American Theatre 47 

American Tract Society 15 

American Water Color Society 41 

American Yacht Club 34 

Amphion Theatre (Brooklyn) 81 

Amsterdam, Fort 7 

Art Association (Brooklyn) 77 

Art Students' League 55 

Asbury Park 104 

Assay Office, United States 19 

Association of the Bar of Mew York 41 

Association for the Improved Instruction of 

Deaf Mutes 69 

Astor House 31 

Astor Library 33 

Astor Place Opera House 20 

Astoria Ferry 93 

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 25 

Bank Clearing House 17 

Baptist Church of the Epiphany 61 

Baptist Tabernacle 41 

Baptist Temple (Brooklyn) 81 

Bar Association of New York 17 

Barnard College 69 

Barnum's Museum 20 

Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty 91 

Battery Park 13 

Bay Parkway 87 

Bay Ridge Parkway 87 

Bedford Heights Church (Bergen) 82 

Bedford Park (Brooklyn) 81 

Bedloe's Island 91 

Bedloe's Island Ferry 93 

Beecher Memorial Church 85 

Beethoven, Bust of 59 

Bellevue Hospital Medical College 43 

Bensonhurst Beach 87 



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Bergen Farm (Brooklyn) „ 79 

Berkeley Lyceum ' " 49 

Berkeley School 49 

Beth-El, Temple ." ." 65 

Bethesda Congregational Church (Brook- 
lyn) •. 83 

Beth Israel Bikur Cholim, Synagogue 63 

Bible House... 34 

Bijou Theatre 47 

Bijou Theatre (Brooklyn) 85 

Biographical Society of America 33 

Blackwell's Island 93 

Blackwell's Island Ferry 93 

Bloomingdaie Reformed Church 61 

B'Nai Jeshurun (Temple) 61 

Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby- 
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Board of Home Missions 45 

Bolivar, Simon, Statue of 59 

Booth's Theatre 33 

Boulevard, The 57 

Bowery Theatre (old) 27 

Bowling Green 7 

Brevoort House 43 

Brick Presbyterian Church 45 

Bridewell 7 

Bridge Street 7 

Bridges Across the Harlem River 94 

Bristol Hotel 47 

Broadway Athenaeum 33 

Broadway Central Hotel 65 

Broadway Music Hall 44 

Broadway Tabernacle 41 

Broadway Theatre 47 

Bronx Borough n 

Bronx Park 73 

Brooklyn 77 

Brooklyn Art Association 85 

Brooklyn Borough , n 

Brooklyn Borough Ferries 93 

Brooklyn Bridge 27 

Brooklyn Club 77 

Brooklyn E. D. School Library 85 

Brooklyn Forest 87 

Brooklyn Homoeopathic Hospital and Dis- 
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Brooklyn Hospital 82 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. . . 85 

Brooklyn Library 77 85 

Brooklyn Music Hall ' 85 

Brooklyn (South) 77 

Brooklyn Throat Hospital 82 

Broome Street Tabernacle 31 

Brougham's Lyceum Theatre 20 

Bryant Park 47 

Bull's Head Tavern 15 

Burns's Coffee House 15 

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Bushwick. Hospital 82 

Bushwick Park 85 

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Calumet Club 49 

Calvary Cemetery 87 

Calvary Church 39 

Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church 69 

Canarsie Beach 87 

Carroll Park 81 

Casino 47 

Castle Garden 15 

Castle William 91 

Cathedral of St. John the Divine 67, 69 

Catholic Apostolic Church 51 

Catskill Mountains 105 

Cedar Park 34 

Central Avenue 75 

Central Baptist Church (Brooklyn) 82 

Central Congregational Church (Brooklyn). 83 
Central Methodist Episcopal Church 

(Brooklyn) .. , 83 

Central Opera House 61 

Central Park 57, 59, 61 

Central Presbyterian Church 51 

Central Railroad of New Jersey 25 

Central Throat Hospital (Brooklyn) 82 

Central Turn-Verein (il 

Century Club 49 

Cervantes, Bust of 59 

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Chelsea 89 

Chickering Hall 38 

Christian Alliance 44 

Christ Church 63 

Church of the Ascension 34 

Church of the Covenant 47 

Church of the Heavenly Rest 65 

Church of the Holy Trinity. 69 

Church of the Incarnation 44 

Church of the Messiah 44 

Church of the New Jerusalem 44 

Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel 67 

Church of the Pilgrims 85 

Church of Reconciliation 83 

Church of the Strangers 51 

Church of the Transfiguration 43 

City Directory (first) 9 

City Hall 10 

Citv Hall (Brooklyn) 77 

City Hall Park (Brooklyn) 81 

City Hall Park 9 

City Park (Brooklyn) 85 

Claremont Park 73 

Clifton (Staten Island) 82 

Clinton Avenue Congregational Church 

(Brooklyn) ■ 83 

Coffee Exchange . . 19 

College Point Eerry 94 

College of the City of New York 39 

College of Pharmacy of the City of New 

York 63 

College of Physicians and Surgeons 63 

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch 

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Collegiate School t>5 

Colonial Club 63 

Columbia Theatre (Brooklyn) 85 

Columbia University 51 

Columbus Theatre 69 

Commerce, Bronze Figure of 59 

Concourse Park (Brooklyn) 87 

Coney Island 93 

Congress ( First American) i.0 

Consolidated Petroleum Exchange 19 

Cooper Park (Brooklyn) 87 

Cooper, Peter, Statue of 31 

Cooper Union 27 

Cooper Union Library 33 

Cotton Exchange 51 

Court House (Brooklyn) 77 

Cox, S. S., Statue of 31 

Crescent Athletic Club (Brooklyn). 77 

Criterion Theatre (Brooklyn) 81 

Crotona Park 73 

Crystal Palace 47 

Cumberland Street Presbyterian Church 

(Brooklyn) 83 

Custom House (first) 7 

Cypress Hills Cemetery (Newtown) 89 

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Daly's Theatre 43 

Declaration of Independence 9 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 

De Peyster, Abraham, Statue of 27 

Disciples of Christ (Church) 51 

Dobbs Ferry 104 

Dodge, William E., Statue of 44 

Dry Dock (South Brooklyn) 79 

Duel between Alexander Hamilton and 

Aaron Burr 9 

Dyckman Street Bridge 94 

Dyke's Beach 87 

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East River 89, 91 

East River Bridge (New) ' 34 

East River Park G5 

East Side Lands (Brooklyn) 85 

Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn) 81 

Eastern Parkway Extension (Brooklyn) 81 

Eden Musee 38 

Eighth Avenue Bridge 94 

Elevated Railways 53, 55 

Eltingville (Staten Island) 89 

Emanu-El (Temple) 47 

Empire Hotel 61 

Empire Theatre 47 

Empire Theatre (Brooklyn) 85 

Erastina (Staten Island) 89 

Erie Railroad 25 

Everett House 37 

Evergreen Cemetery (Newtown) 87 

Excelsior Club 77 

Exports (Domestic) 23 

Exports (Foreign) 23, 25 

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Faith Home for Incurables 82 

Federal Building (Brooklyn) 77 

Ferries 93, 94 



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Fifth Avenue Baptist Church 49 

Fifth Avenue Collegiate Church 49 

Fifth Avenue Hotel 43 

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 51 

Fifth Avenue Theatre - 43 

First Baptist Church 65, 67 

First Baptist Church (Brooklyn) 82 

First Collegiate Reformed Church of 

Harlem 69 

First Ferry (Brooklyn) 79 

First M. E. Church (Brooklyn) 82 

First Moravian Church 44 

First Presbyterian Church 35 

First Reformed Episcopal Church 57 

First Reformed Presbyterian Church 35 

First Unitarian Congregational Society 81 

Flatbush Free Library (Brooklyn) 81 

Fort Columbus 91 

Fort Hamilton 91 

Fort Hamilton Park 87 

Fort Hamilton Parkway 81 

Fort Hancock 93 

Fort Lafayette 91 

Fort Lee Ferry 94 

Fort Schuyler 91 

Fort Slocum 91 

Fort Totten 91 

Fort Washington 9, 73 

Fort Wood 91 

Fourteenth Street Theatre 35 

Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal 

Church (Brooklyn) 83 

Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church 39 

Fraunce's Tavern 15 

Franconi's Hippodrome 45 

Franklin, Benjamin, Statue of 27 

Free Circulating Library 19 

Free Lending Library 81 

Free Library of the General Society of 

Mechanics and Tradesmen 37 

French's Hotel 17 

Friends' Meeting House 38 

Fulton Street (Brooklyn) 77 

G 

Gallows 9 

Garden Theatre . 43 

Garrick Theatre 44 

Gayety Theatre (Brooklyn) 85 

General Theological Seminary 38 

Gerlach Hotel 43 

German Hospital (Brooklyn) 82 

Germania Theatre 34 

Gifford's (Staten Island) 89 

Gilsey House 43 

Girls' High School 35 

Golden Eagle Inn 17 

Governor's Island 91 

Governor's Island Ferry 94 

Governors of New York 99, 101 

Grace Church 35 

Gramercy Park 39 

Grand Army of the Republic 34 

Grand Central Station 35 

Grand Opera House 38 

Grand Opera House (Brooklyn) 81 

Grand Union Hotel 55 



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Grant Statue (Brooklyn) 87 

Gravesend Bay 91 

Greeley, Horace, Statue of 31 

Greene Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn). 83 

Greenwood Baptist Church 83 

Greenwood Cemetery 87 

Grenoble Hotel 55 

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Hale, Nathan, Statue of 19 

Hall of Records (Brooklyn) 77 

Hall of Records 9 

Halleck, Statue of 59 

Hamilton Club (Brooklyn) 77 

Hamilton Fish Park 33 

Hancock Monument 73 

Harbor of New York 89 

Harlem Club 69 

Harlem Opera House 69 

Harlem River 91 

Harmonie Club 47 

Harrigan's Theatre 44 

Hart's Island Ferry 94 

Heights, The (Brooklyn) 77 

Hell Gate 91 

Herald Square Theatre 44 

High Bridge 71 

High Bridge Park 75 

Highland Park 85 

Hill, The (Brooklyn)..., 77 

Historical Hall (Brooklyn) 85 

Hoboken • 103 

Hoboken Ferries 94 

Hoffman House 39 

Holland House 45 

Holland Society of New York 34 

Holy Communion Church 38 

Holy Trinity Church (Brooklyn) 81 

Home for Consumptives (Brooklyn) 82 

Hudson Park 29 

Hudson River 89,104,105 

Huguenots (Staten Island) 87 

Huguenot Graveyard (Staten Island) 89 

Humboldt, Bust of 59 

Hunt, Richard M. (Memorial) 44 

Hyde & Behman's Theatre 81 

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Imperial Hotel 45 

Imports (Foreign), New York 21 

Indian Hunter 59 

Irving Place Theatre 37 

Irving Square 85 

Irvington 104 

Jail (New) 9 

Jeanette Park 35 

Jefferson Hotel 37 

Jersey City 103 

Jersey City Ferries 93 

John Street Methodist Episcopal Church. . 31 

John Street Theatre 15 

Judson Memorial Baptist Church 41 

Jumel Mansion 73, 75 

Junction with Hudson River (Ship Canal 

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Kenisco Cemetery 75 

Kennedy House 20 

Kings County Hospital 85 

Kingston 105 

Kingston Avenue Hospital 83 

Knickerbocker Avenue Methodist Epis- 
copal Church (Brooklyn) 82 

Knickerbocker Club 65 

Knickerbocker Theatre 45 

Koster & Bial's Theatre 47 

Krigler's, Martin (tavern) 15 

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Ladies' Christian Union 34 

Law Library (Brooklyn) . 81 

La Montagne Tavern 15 

Laura Keene's Varieties 33 

Lawyers' Club . 17 

Lee Avenue Congregational Church (Brook- 
lyn) 83 

Lehigh Valley Railroad • 25 

Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church 69 

Lenox Library 63 

Lenox Lyceum 57 

Lewis Avenue Congregational Church 83 

Lexington Avenue Opera House 55 

Library of the New York Academy of 

Medicine 47 

Lincoln Club 77 

Lincoln Terrace 87 

Linnaean Society 65 

Linton Park 87 

London Theatre 29 

Long Branch 104 

Long Island College Hospital 83 

Long Island Historical Socitty 77,85 

Long I sland Railroad 27 

Long Island Sound . . 89, 91 

Long Island Throat and Lung Hospital. . . 83 

Lotos Club 41 

Lutheran Cemetery 87 

Lutherisches Hospital 82 

Lyceum Theatre 38 

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Macomb's Dam (Public Bridge) 94 

Madison Avenue Baptist Church 41 

Madison Avenue Bridge 90 

Madison Avenue Hotel 61 

Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church 57 

Madison Avenue Reformed Church 57 

Madison Square 41 

Madison Square Baptist Church 39 

Madison Square Garden , 41 

Madison Square Theatre 41 

Majestic Hotel (3 

Manhattan Athletic Club s9 

Manhattan Borough - 11 

Manhattan Club 41 

Manhattan College 69 

Manhattan Island 5 

Manhattan Square 65 

Manhattan Theatre 47 

Mansion House (Brooklyn) 77 

Marble Collegiate Church 41 

Margaret Louisa Home ... 37 



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Marlboro (Hotel) 45 

Masonic Temple 39 

Mayors of New York 102, 103 

Mazzini, Bust of 59 

McGowan's Pass 61 

Memorial Hall 81 

Memorial Hospital for Women and Chil- 
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Memorial Presbyterian Church 82 

Menagerie 61 

Mercantile Library 33 

Merchants' Coffee House 15 

Methodist Book Concern 38 

Methodist Episcopal Hospital 83 

Methodist Historical Society 55 

Methodist Mission House 38 

Metropolitan Club 59 

Metropolitan College of Music 37 

Metropolitan Hotel 41 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 59 

Metropolitan Opera House 47 

Metropolis Theatre 71 

Middle Collegiate Church 33 

Middle Dutch Church 19 

Midland Beach 89 

Military Department of the East 91 

Military Order Loyal Legion of the United 

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Miner's Bowery Theatre 29 

Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre 43 

Montauk Club 77 

Montauk Theatre 81 

Moore, Thomas, Bust of 59 

Morningside Heights 71, 73 

Morningside Park 71 

Morris cS^: Essex Railroad 25 

Mount Hope Cemetery 75 

Mount Morris Square 73 

Mount St. Vincent Academy 75 

Mulberry Bend Park 39 

Municipal Building (Brooklyn 77 

Murray Hill 45 

Murray Hill Hotel 45 

Murray Hill Theatre 45 

Music Hall 51 

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Nassau Street Theatre 15 

National Academy of Design 39 

National Guard of Brooklyn 79 

National Guard of New York 27 

National Society of New England Women. 67 

Naval Reserve (Brooklyn) 79 

Naval Reserve (New York) 27 

Navy Yard (Brooklyn) 79 

Negro Plot 9 

New Amsterdam 5 

Newburgh 105 

New England Baptist Church 83 

New England Society 29 

New Jersey Midland Railroad 25 

New Jersey Northern Railroad 25 

New Jersey Shore 103, 104 

New Lots Playground 87 

New Netherland Hotel 57 

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New York Academy of Sciences 51 

New York Athletic Club 57 

New York Club 45 

New York College of Dentistry 19 

New York College of Music • 57 

New York Conservatory of Music 38 

New York, First Settlement 5, 7, 9 

New York Genealogical and Biographical 

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New York Genealogical and Biographical 

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New York Historical Society 43 

New York Homoeopathic Medical College 

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New York Institution of the Deaf and 

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New York Ladies' Home Missionary Society 33 
New York Medical College and Hospital 

for Women and Children 51 

New York Post-Graduate Hospital and 

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New York, Population 11 

New York and New Jersey Bridge 61 

New York & Putnam Railroad 27 

New York Society Library 33 

New York Southern Society 41 

New York, Susquehanna & Western Rail- 
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New York Stock Exchange 17 

New York Theatre 49 

New York Trade School 63 

New York Turn-Verein 67 

New York Typographical Society 27 

New York Yacht Club 63 

Niblo's Theatre 31 

Normal College for Women 63 

Normandie, Hotel 45 

North Baptist Church 35 

North Brother Island Ferry 94 

North River 89, 91 

Norwegian Lutheran Deaconesses' Home 

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Nyack 1<»4 

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Obelisk 59 

Ocean Grove 103 

Ocean Hill Baptist Church 83 

Ocean Parkway 81 

Odd Fellows, Headquarters 65 

Ohio Society of New York 65 

Old Dutch Vauxhall 17 

Old Guard of New York 35 

Olympia Theatre 49 

Oratorio Society 55 

Oxford Club 77 

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Park Avenue Hotel 44 

Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. 67 

Park Plaza 79 



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Park Theatre 15, 38, 45 

Park Theatre (Brooklyn) 81 

Pearl Street 7 

Peekskill 105 

Pelham Bay Park 73 

Pennsylvania Ave. Congregational Church 82 

Pennsylvania Railroad 25 

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad 25 

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Phillips Presbyterian Church (i5 

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Piers, East River 95, 96 

Piers, Manhattan Borough 95 

Piers, North River 95 

Pilgrim, The (Bronze Statue) 59 

Plaza Hotel 57 

Plymouth Church 81 

Population of New York 11, 13 

Port Richmond 89 

Post Office (first) 9 

Post Office 17 

Post Office Building (Brooklyn) 77 

Potter's Field 43 

Poughkeepsie 105 

Pratt Institute 85 

Presbyterian House 35 

Prince's Bay 89 

Printing Press (first) 11 

Proctor's Pleasure Palace 55 

Proctor's Theatre 38 

Produce Exchange ... 51 

Progress Club 61 

Prohibition Park 89 

Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church-... 83 

Prospect Park 79 

Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary 

Society for Seamen 34 

Puritan Congregational Church 82 

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Ouarantine Station 91 

Oueens Borough 11 

Queens Borough Ferries 94 

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Randall's Island 93 

Randall's Island Ferry 94 

Rapid Transit 53 

Red Bank 89 

Red Hook Park 85 

Republican Union League Club (Brooklyn) 77 

Richmond 89 

Richmond Borough 11 

Richmond Borough Ferry 94 

Riverside Park 73 

Riverside Presbyterian Church 71 

Rodolph Sholom (Temple) 61 

Roman Catholic Hospital (Brooklyn) 82 

Rossville 89 

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San Remo Hotel 63 

Saratoga Square (Brooklyn) 85 

Savoy Hotel 57 

Schiller, Bust of 61 

Scotch Presbyterian Church 67 

Scottish Rite Hall. 43 

Second Avenue Bridge 94 

Second Baptist Church (Brooklyn) 83 

Second Collegiate Reformed Church of 

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Second Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn). . . 83 

Second Unitarian Church (Brooklyn) 83 

Seventh Regiment (Bronze Figure) 59 

Seventh Street Methodist Episcopal Church 33 

Shaarai Tephila (Temple) 67 

Shakespeare. Statue of 59 

Shearith Israel (Temple) 63 

Sing Sing 104 

Sir Walter Scott, Statue of 61 

Sixth Avenue Baptist Church (Brooklyn).. 82 

Slave Market 9 

Society for Promoting the Gospel Among 

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Sons of Liberty 9 

South Beach 89 

South Reformed Dutch Church 45 

Southern Boulevard 75 

Speedway, The 73 

Spuyten Duyvil Creek Bridge 94 

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Standard Theatre 45 

Stapleton 89 

Star Theatre (New York) 35 

Star Theatre (Brooklyn 81 

Staten Island Ferry. 94 

Steamships (Coast) 96, 97 

Steamships (Transatlantic). .... 97 

Steinway Hall 37 

St. Andrew's Church 69 

St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church. 65 

St. Andrew's Society 39 

St. Agnes Chapel 67 

St. Augustine's Chapel 29 

St. Bartholomew's Church 49 

St. Catharine's Hospital 85 

St. Chrysostom's Chapel 47 

St. David's Society 39 

St. Denis Hotel 35 

St. Francis Xavier Church 37 

St. Francis Xavier College 37 

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St. George's Society 29 

St. Giles Home 82 

St. James Church 63 

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St. John's Burying Ground 29 

St. John's Chapel 29 

St. John's Hospital 83 

St. Luke's Church 71 

St. Mark's Church 34 

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St. Nicholas Hotel 31 

Stony Point 104 

St. Patrick's Cathedral 49 

St. Patrick's Church 25 

St. Paul's Chapel 31 

St. Paul's Churchyard 31 

St. Peter's Church 25 

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St. Thomas Church 57 

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Sunset Park 85 

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Third Avenue Bridge 94 

Third Avenue Theatre 45 

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